gentlemen thinker philosophical Concepts explained in brief in a posh English accent Occam's razor developed by William of Christopher Walker is the principal of philosophical parsimony in Latin it's NTR nonsunt multiplicand air Pretenders entities should not be multiplied beyond the necessity what that means is we shouldn't make assumptions or postulate the existence of things that are Surplus 2 requirement for instance if you have a working theory of gravity that explains why objects fall towards the center of the earth you don't then need to say objects fall because of gravity and there are invisible demons that pull
things towards the floor in order to break them the demons in that theory don't do any work they are Superfluous sort of extra nonsense so we don't need them in our account of things Occam's razor says cut them out by the way you'll see two different spellings of Arkham Arkham is a village in Surrey that's the original spelling Arkham is the latinized version of it subscribe to philosophytube for more from the gentleman thinker till then Cheerio all chap
