Occam's razor
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Of two competing theories, the simpler explanation of an entity is to be preferred.
Hitchens's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
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This law belongs with Murphy's Laws, where small assumptions, timing, and system complexity tend to turn into memorable failures.
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