In addition to what I stated and the article I included in my last post, I also
wanted to send you links to two other articles relevant to Phillipe's questions:
Lloyd Morgan’s Canon: A History of Misrepresentation by Roger K. Thomas (2001)
http://htpprints.yorku.ca/documents/docs/00/00/00/17/htp00000017-00/MCWeb.htm
Razor in the Toolbox: The history, use, and abuse of Occam’s Razor by Robert Novella
(2001)
http://www.theness.com/newsletter.html
(You'll have to scroll down the page a bit to get to this one.)
Philippe Gervaix wrote:
> Hello y'all from overseas,
>
> In a recent post, someone mentioned the "law of parsimony".
> My intervention has implications on two levels (at least, and as far as we
> are concerned on this list): epistemological and pedagogical. Of course both
> are intertwined....
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