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“God is a simpler explanation. Using Hackam’s Razor ( I think that’s what it’s called, someone else can check me on that), the simpler theory is usually right, so I’m going with God. QED”
Ockham’s razor
Ockham’s Razor is the principle proposed by William of Ockham in the fourteenth century:
Robert J. Hanlon
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”
Finagle’s Law:
The generalized or ‘folk’ version of Murphy’s Law, fully named “Finagle’s Law of Dynamic Negatives” and usually rendered “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. May have been first published by Francis P. Chisholm in his 1963 essay The Chisholm Effect, later reprinted in the classic anthology A Stress Analysis Of A Strapless Evening Gown: And Other Essays For A Scientific Eye (Robert Baker ed, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-852608-7).
Murphy’s Law:
The correct, original Murphy’s Law reads: “If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.” Later changed to: “What ever can go wrong will go wrong”
Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of McDonnell-Douglas’s test engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject’s body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 in a replacement set the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) mis-quoted (apparently in the more general form “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong)” at a news conference a few days later. Within months ‘Murphy’s Law’ had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on “Anything that can go wrong, will”; this is more correctly referred to as Finagle’s Law. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy’s Law acting on itself! This statement has often been referred to as Hanlon’s Razor, though the author himself has remained relatively unknown.
Yours in Christ,
hurdlr23,**
Quote by hurdlr23** –**
“God is a simpler explanation. Using Hackam’s Razor ( I think that’s what it’s called, someone else can check me on that), the simpler theory is usually right, so I’m going with God. QED”
Ockham’s razor
Ockham’s Razor is the principle proposed by William of Ockham in the fourteenth century:
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate'', which translates as entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily’’. In many cases this is interpreted as ``keep it simple’’, but in reality the Razor has a more subtle and interesting meaning. Suppose that you have two competing theories which describe the same system, if these theories have different predictions than it is a relatively simple matter to find which one is better: one does experiments with the required sensitivity and determines which one give the most accurate predictions. Common usage; “'With all things being equal, the simplest explanation/answer is normally the right one”Robert J. Hanlon
“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity”
Finagle’s Law:
The generalized or ‘folk’ version of Murphy’s Law, fully named “Finagle’s Law of Dynamic Negatives” and usually rendered “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong”. May have been first published by Francis P. Chisholm in his 1963 essay The Chisholm Effect, later reprinted in the classic anthology A Stress Analysis Of A Strapless Evening Gown: And Other Essays For A Scientific Eye (Robert Baker ed, Prentice-Hall, ISBN 0-13-852608-7).
Murphy’s Law:
The correct, original Murphy’s Law reads: “If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it.” Later changed to: “What ever can go wrong will go wrong”
Edward A. Murphy, Jr. was one of McDonnell-Douglas’s test engineers on the rocket-sled experiments that were done by the U.S. Air Force in 1949 to test human acceleration tolerances (USAF project MX981). One experiment involved a set of 16 accelerometers mounted to different parts of the subject’s body. There were two ways each sensor could be glued to its mount, and somebody methodically installed all 16 in a replacement set the wrong way around. Murphy then made the original form of his pronouncement, which the test subject (Major John Paul Stapp) mis-quoted (apparently in the more general form “Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong)” at a news conference a few days later. Within months ‘Murphy’s Law’ had spread to various technical cultures connected to aerospace engineering. Before too many years had gone by variants had passed into the popular imagination, changing as they went. Most of these are variants on “Anything that can go wrong, will”; this is more correctly referred to as Finagle’s Law. The memetic drift apparent in these mutants clearly demonstrates Murphy’s Law acting on itself! This statement has often been referred to as Hanlon’s Razor, though the author himself has remained relatively unknown.
Yours in Christ,
