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From: flash@inference.ee.qmc.ac.uk (Flash Sheridan)
Newsgroups: sci.philosophy.tech
Subject: Re: Layman's argument for Occam's razor
Message-ID: <294@sequent.cs.qmc.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 24-Sep-87 11:47:14 EDT
Article-I.D.: sequent.294
Posted: Thu Sep 24 11:47:14 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 27-Sep-87 10:08:18 EDT
References: <433@morgoth.UUCP> <20264@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
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Organization: EE Dept, Queen Mary College, University of London, UK.
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Keywords: simplicity truth aesthetics Einstein

In article <20264@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> kube@cogsci.berkeley.edu.UUCP (Paul Kube) writes:
>In article <433@morgoth.UUCP> dmb@morgoth.UUCP (David M. Brown) writes:
> do you really mean to suggest that you can tell if
>a serious empirical theory is true just by thinking about it?
>
According to Einstein, yes.  He claimed he developed Special
Relativity for its harmony with Maxwell's equations, _before_
Michelson-Morley.