"Except that Occam 's razor is used for comparing hypotheses . In this example , I expect that the `` car hit the animal `` hypothesis is simpler than any other hypothesis ."
"And what do you conclude from this comparison ? That the car hypothesis is correct and any other hypothesis is wrong , right ? So you stop investigating . But is that how we should do science ? NO . It 's laziness and an intellectual copout . What we have is a misuse of the Razor . The Razor is not supposed to be used for comparing hypotheses . Instead , it 's supposed to keep hypotheses out of descriptions of phenomenon ."
"Except that Occam 's razor is used for comparing hypotheses ."
"And what do you conclude from this comparison ?"