The latter could, after all, mean absolutely anything depending on your opinion of what's "simple"
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Of course there's a certain sense in which a theistic universe is "simpler" than an atheistic one but it's simpler BECAUSE YOU ADDED A WHOLE NEW CATEGORY OF THING ("God") to explain away everything "complicated"
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And the idea of Occam's Razor is to try to minimize the number of special categories of things William of Ockham himself was, of course, a theist and a Christian, but he was trying to keep people from just constantly making up more shit about God and Heaven and angels
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Some of that is baked into "All things being equal..." but that's also a big hedge anyway.
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The version I'm most familiar with also hedges by saying "often" as in "All things being equal, the simplest solution is often the best solution." Two pretty huge hedges in there that definitely indicate this is a reminder, not really a rule.
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As I've been saying for a while, the mid 2000's new atheist/skeptic project of teaching the masses a super simplified version of "critical thinking" has had some ironic consequences.
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That’s also why it’s a Razor. It’s not always correct. It’s not some law of the universe.
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On the other hand, misreading Occam's razor as something else makes me want a heist movie based around the concept
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