Survival of AK
kizor0
ryokas at hotmail.com
Sat Sep 25 19:44:25 UTC 2004
No: HPFGUIDX 113868
--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <steve51445 at a...> wrote:
> Occam's Razor, as the principle is called, states: "when you have two
> competing theories which make exactly the same predictions, the one
that is
> simpler is the better." Or "all things being equal, the simplest answer
> tends to be the right one."
The trouble with Occam's Razor is what I none-too-humbly call Kizor's
Rake: "Probabilities cannot be used to make definitive statements
about reality."
This is especially true with a convoluted narrative that likes to
throw things on their head. Anything too far-fetched will likely come
under ANTITHESIS (All Nice Theories, I Think; However, Each
Supposition Is Strained) but Harry and the gang have failed to see
what's in front of themselves several times throughout the series by
failing to thing topsy-turvily *enough*.
- Kizor
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