Problems with this section; for Frank (Agnosticism)

by David Turell , Wednesday, November 25, 2009, 02:10 (5476 days ago) @ dhw


> (Finally plus one: a note on Occam/Ockham. His name was William and he came from Ockham, a town in Surrey, England. My dictionaries give both spellings with his famous razor, but you won't find Occam in a British atlas!)-Thank you for your explanation. We were taught the razor as Occam in medical school diagnostic discussion. A doctor makes a differential diagnosis list about the illness, the simplest and most likly first, using the razor. There may be five or more listed in descending order of probability.