Heuristics

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Hume's Guillotine: The Is-Ought Problem [Useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thought/critical thinking]

21 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

This one is I believe particularly relevant and quite the scourge in many ways. Also known as the "is-ought problem" and first articulated by Scottish philosopher David Hume, it states that many claims are made about what ought to be, based on statem...

Hume's Guillotine: The Is-Ought Problem [Useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thought/critical thinking]

Occam's Razor: Law of Parsimony [Useful conceptual heuristics and tools for thought]

21 Jan 2020 2 minute read 0 comments rhyzom

Occam's razor (novacula Occami) is a sense-making/problem-solving principle attributed to 13th century theologian and scholastic philosopher William of Ockham which states that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity" (or "plurality must...