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Quantum Information, the Ambiguity of the Past, and the Birth ... - PiTP

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In <strong>the</strong> philosophy <strong>of</strong> science, <strong>the</strong> principle <strong>of</strong> Occam’s Razor<br />

directs us to favor <strong>the</strong> most economical set <strong>of</strong> assumptions able<br />

to explain a given body <strong>of</strong> observational data.<br />

Alternative<br />

hypo<strong>the</strong>ses<br />

Deductive<br />

path<br />

Observed<br />

Phenomena<br />

The most economical hypo<strong>the</strong>sis is preferred, even if <strong>the</strong><br />

deductive path connecting it to <strong>the</strong> phenomena it explains is<br />

long <strong>and</strong> complicated.

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