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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Why We Should Prefer Simpler Explanations
There might be a story about why it's rational to prefer simpler explanations, for example. The intuitive idea is the idea that I think Newton advocated. He says we should basically prefer simpler explanations because nature affects not the pump of superfluous causes. And so that would give you one reason why preferring simple explanations would be rational.
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