• Telodzrum@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Hume’s Maxim:

    That no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish; and even in that case there is a mutual destruction of arguments, and the superior only gives us an assurance suitable to that degree of force, which remains, after deducting the inferior.

    is close to diametric opposition of Occam’s Razor.

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      3 months ago

      thanks! wrong kind of opposite i think, because this actually makes sense 🙃

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      3 months ago

      Reminds me of:

      When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

      Arthur Conan Doyle (as Sherlock Holmes), The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #9)