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Re:The Octonion Math That Could Underpin Physics by RobertoG on Friday July 20, 2018 @01:23PM (#17577006)
Occam's razor is not about the simplest theory being true, but about how from a simple theory you can create infinite more just adding an element.

If you have infinite possible theories, the only logical thing to do is to stay with the most simple theory until it can't explain the world anymore, then you choose the next one more simple.

There is also, I think, a theoretical information argument: when creating a theory you are trying to compress all the observations. The better the compression, the better the theory.

I don't understand why people down-vote you, by the way.

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