(February 18, 2018 at 7:27 am)notimportant1234 Wrote:(February 18, 2018 at 7:15 am)Grandizer Wrote: Given all other things equal, the more parsimonious explanation among two or more competing explanations is considered the more reasonable explanation. Whether it's really true or not is not what Occam's razor is used to determine.
By the way, pretty sure theories in science are NOT postulated, but rather "concluded" as an explanation for evidence discovered repeatedly and conclusively. Or at least they're not postulated in quantitative research.
Yes , well said " given al things equal" betwen two explanations the simpler one is prefered , wich is not valid here because this are 2 different theories .
Postulated is the right word , there are an infinite number of ways to express a conclusion, the simpler one is prefered not become Occam's Razor is some ultimate logic model but due to the fact that a simpler hypothesis is easyer to test .
This was actually in the introduction of the link but you haven't bothered to read it.
I don't see "postulated" anywhere in the intro, at least not with reference to "scientific theory". But even if it is in there somewhere, it would be more appropriate to say that they are established through repeated testing of its predictive and explanatory power, but I guess you can also say "postulated" given a certain context and/or interpretation (such as theories postulate this and that). But it's not generally just an educated guess (like a scientific hypothesis).
