At 01:58 pm 27/05/2005 -0400, you wrote: >> From: "Jones Beene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >
<snip> > Which reminds me, you used a phrase sometime back, I don't > remember when, but it went something like "x trumps y". It was Jed who used the phrase in his post of Thu, 12 Feb 2004 11:06:28 on the topic of Occam and Cold Fusion =================================================== I wouldn't know if there is a simpler explanation, but if there is, Occam's razor tells you to pick that one. Any solution that "fits all the facts better" is preferable, even if it happens to be more complex. A "better fit" trumps Occam. Many wonderfully simple theories have been replaced by complicated ones that fit the facts better, especially in biology. - Jed =================================================== Not a feat of memory on my part. It's just that there couldn't be many instances of "trumps" in the Vortex archives (13) so I thought I'd do the legwork and track it down for you. 8-) Jones included that excerpt in a subsequent post which is what you probably remember. Frank Actually, on reading what Jed wrote I find I profoundly disagree with it.
