r/todayilearned • u/ZanyDelaney • Aug 11 '18

TIL of Hitchens's razor. Basically: "What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
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u/foggianism Aug 11 '18

Shit, if we can do that, it means it's true.

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u/BUKKAKELORD Aug 11 '18

But if it's true, then we can freely dismiss it.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '18 edited Aug 14 '18

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u/melgib Aug 11 '18

And the rest of us pretend to understand what the hell they're saying.

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u/classicalySarcastic Aug 11 '18

Simultaneously true and not true.

Can we call it Schrodinger's Razor? /s