94. #parsimonygate & Occam's Razor | THUNK
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Date: 15/06/2016

Occam's Razor is an important philosophical tool, & it played a central role in the #parsimonygate kerfuffle on Twitter. Learn exactly how it works!

-Links for the Curious-

The Cladistics editorial that kicked this whole thing off - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12148/epdf?utm_content=buffere6159&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer

A fantastic article on Wired about #parsimonygate - http://www.wired.com/2016/02/twitter-nerd-fight-reveals-a-long-bizarre-scientific-feud/

An interesting blog post on the issue - http://aguidetoacademia.blogspot.com/2016/02/parsiomygate-perspective-of-reformed.html?m=1

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's entry on ontological parsimony - http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/simplicity/#OntPar

My sister's *fantastic* hand-written notes - http://imgur.com/a/2SAyl