| Subject: Hey Wade!! ... with cut & paste! |
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ozboy
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Date Posted: 02/17/02 4:07am
In reply to:
Wade A. Tisthammer
's message, "Re: Agreed." on 02/16/02 9:48pm
originally from me: To look at monkeys and say that they are not related to us… seems quite ridiculous!!!
>>>Wade... the above is the thing that most irks you I think!
Am I wrong in applying Occams Razor? ... that is to say that monkeys and apes look and act so much like us ... that they must be related to us! .... the fact that they look similar cannot be used to evidence the fact that we are not related!! ... get my drift??
... to say this is also to say that christians and jews and muslims are similiarly not related in their belief structures ... they obvioulsy are in their worship of the same god.... only in different ways! ... get my drift??
... to refresh ones memory! ... some cut and paste! (hi Ben)
William of Ockham, also called William Ockham (Ockham also spelled " Occam") (1285-1347/49), was a medeival monk.. (a scholastic)
Ockham's razor, also spelled "Occam's razor", but also called "law of economy" or "law of parsimony", is a principle stated by William of Ockham, that entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity (non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem). This principle was, in fact, invoked before Ockham by Durand de Saint-Pourcain, a French Dominican theologian and philosopher of dubious orthodoxy, who used it to explain that abstraction is the apprehension of some real entity. Galileo did something similar by defending the simplest hypothesis of the heavens, and other later scientists stated similar simplifying laws and principles. It is called "Ockham's razor" because he mentioned the principle so frequently and employed it so sharply. For instance, he used it
1. to dispense with relations which he held to be nothing distinct from their foundation in things;
2. with efficient causality, which he tended to view merely as regular succession;
3. with motion, which is merely the reappearance of a thing in a different place;
4. with psychological powers distinct for each mode of sense;
5. and with the presence of ideas in the mind of the Creator, which are merely the creatures themselves.
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