Tuesday, September 28, 2010

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Occams Razor and Presidential Eligibility

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Occam’s razor (or Ockham’s razor) is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (translating to the law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness). The principle is popularly interpreted as “the simplest explanation is usually the correct one”. When competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question.  It is in this sense that Occam’s razor is usually understood.
As applied to the question of Obama’s failure to produce even one document that affirmatively identifies him as a natural born citizen, the following question applies:
What is the likelihood that Obama is hiding documents that:
  1. are harmless and benign?
  2. contain damaging information?
Separating the two options with a razor, it is clearly door number 2.
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