Ockham's Razor

JOHN REYNOLDS

Ockham's Razor is a principal of logic that asserts that the simplest explanation of a phenomenon is most likely the correct one rather than a more complicated explanation.

Logic is perverted on an almost daily basis by the pit bull apologia.

Let's take today for example. The most recent pit bull fatality (read about it at Dogsbite.org) is in rural Missouri, the land of the puppy mill and the dogfighter. John Reynolds found his father lying in the fenced area that contains 17 pit bulls. His father was deceased and had injuries consistent with an animal attack. The simplest, most logical assumption is that he was killed by dogs, not just any dogs, THOSE dogs. Ockham's logic doesn't fly in the world of pit nutters. John Reynolds junior is convinced that the pit bulls did not kill his father and hypothesized that a mountain lion killed his father INSIDE the pit bull enclosure containing 17 pit bulls. He has no explanation as to how and why a mountain lion would enter an enclosure with 17 dogs and then magically disappear or why not a single ONE of the 17 most "courageous, loving, loyal, people pleasing" dogs created by psychopaths would step up and protect their master from harm.

This theory of logic was first attributed to fourteenth century english philosopher William of Ockham, others have embraced it.

"We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."

Isaac Newton 

"We could still imagine that there is a set of laws that determines events completely for some supernatural being, who could observe the present state of the universe without disturbing it. However, such models of the universe are not of much interest to us mortals. It seems better to employ the principle known as Occam's razor and cut out all the features of the theory which cannot be observed."

Stephen Hawking 

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

Albert Einstein