Mike Alder and Occam's razor

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Difference between Mike Alder and Occam's razor

Mike Alder vs. Occam's razor

Mike Alder (born Michael D. Alder) is an Australian mathematician who was an assistant professor at the University of Western Australia. Occam's razor (also Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae "law of parsimony") is the problem-solving principle that, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

Similarities between Mike Alder and Occam's razor

Mike Alder and Occam's razor have 8 things in common (in Unionpedia): Epistemology, Falsifiability, Hitchens's razor, Isaac Newton, McNamara fallacy, Philosophical razor, Premise, Reductionism.

Epistemology

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the theory of knowledge.

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Falsifiability

A statement, hypothesis, or theory has falsifiability (or is falsifiable) if it can logically be proven false by contradicting it with a basic statement.

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Hitchens's razor

Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor asserting that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim, and if this burden is not met, the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it.

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Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton (25 December 1642 – 20 March 1726/27) was an English mathematician, astronomer, theologian, author and physicist (described in his own day as a "natural philosopher") who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time, and a key figure in the scientific revolution.

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McNamara fallacy

The McNamara fallacy (also known as quantitative fallacy), named for Robert McNamara, the United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others.

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Philosophical razor

In philosophy, a razor is a principle or rule of thumb that allows one to eliminate ("shave off") unlikely explanations for a phenomenon, or avoid unnecessary actions.

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Premise

A premise or premiss is a statement that an argument claims will induce or justify a conclusion.

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Reductionism

Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.

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Mike Alder and Occam's razor Comparison

Mike Alder has 25 relations, while Occam's razor has 231. As they have in common 8, the Jaccard index is 3.12% = 8 / (25 + 231).

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