Ep 105: David Deutsch’s “The Fabric of Reality” Chapter 4 “Criteria for Reality” Part 1
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Is the Inquisition's Theory Really Complicated?
The inquisition's theory looks hopelessly contrived. Why should we accept such a complicated and adhock account of why the sky looks as it does, when the unadorned heliocentric cosmology does the same job with less fuss? We may cite the principle of okam's razor, do not multiply entities beyond necessity. Because if you do the unnecessarily complications themselves remain unexplained. So to day, using the best explanation of epistemology in the philosophy of science, given to us in the beginning of infinity, we would say that heliocentrism is the hard to vary explanation. Adding epicycles is an easy variation. However, it's very difficult to
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