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Politics : Bush-The Mastermind behind 9/11? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Don Earl who wrote (394)	4/28/2003 12:42:47 PM
From: LPS5	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20039

By the principals of Occam's razor, the second theory would be the correct one. Absolutely wrong. Occam's Razor doesn't determine the "correctness" of a theory; it serves as a guide with respect to undertaking an investigation in a logical manner and building upon a foundation within which the minimum number of relevant argumentative elements are included, so as not to lead the investigation askew (unnecessarily). The principle serves, essentially, to remind the investigator - whether a scientist, an attorney, a mathematician, etc. - to keep it simple until the weight of evidence no longer supports that hypothesis, adding only that incremental complexity that need be added to accomodate new or different information. Only evidence - hard, credible, well documented and preferably multiple elements of mutually corroborating evidence - can ultimately prove which of a number of competing theories are correct or, in more cases, likely to be correct. LPS5