by The.hood.besties October 3, 2021
Get the October 5 mug.October 17. Otherwise known as BROctoberfest is a holiday when bros gather with their fellow bros to slam natties, play cod, eat sandwiches and flat out chill all fuckin day. It is certainly the chillest holiday ever invented.
Bro #1-"Bro, what you doin for October 17?"
Bro #2-"Playin some lax, fuckin my slampiece, pounding some natties, and smokin a monster joint. Just like every year at broctoberfest"
Bro #2-"Playin some lax, fuckin my slampiece, pounding some natties, and smokin a monster joint. Just like every year at broctoberfest"
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a futile attempt; an act which will have very little or no consequence; a very small proportion of the whole
Trying to stop illegal downloading by arresting individual college students is like pissing in the ocean - there is no way they can arrest millions of internet-users.
by wube October 27, 2007
Get the pissing in the ocean mug.Occam's razor is a logical principle attributed to the mediaeval philosopher William of Occam (or Ockham). The principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. This principle is often called the principle of parsimony. It underlies all scientific modelling and theory building. It admonishes us to choose from a set of otherwise equivalent models of a given phenomenon the simplest one. In any given model, Occam's razor helps us to "shave off" those concepts, variables or constructs that are not really needed to explain the phenomenon. By doing that, developing the model will become much easier, and there is less chance of introducing inconsistencies, ambiguities and redundancies.
Though the principle may seem rather trivial, it is essential for model building because of what is known as the "underdetermination of theories by data". For a given set of observations or data, there is always an infinite number of possible models explaining those same data. This is because a model normally represents an infinite number of possible cases, of which the observed cases are only a finite subset. The non-observed cases are inferred by postulating general rules covering both actual and potential observations.
For example, through two data points in a diagram you can always draw a straight line, and induce that all further observations will lie on that line. However, you could also draw an infinite variety of the most complicated curves passing through those same two points, and these curves would fit the empirical data just as well. Only Occam's razor would in this case guide you in choosing the "straight" (i.e. linear) relation as best candidate model. A similar reasoning can be made for n data points lying in any kind of distribution.
Occam's razor is especially important for universal models such as the ones developed in General Systems Theory, mathematics or philosophy, because there the subject domain is of an unlimited complexity. If one starts with too complicated foundations for a theory that potentially encompasses the universe, the chances of getting any manageable model are very slim indeed. Moreover, the principle is sometimes the only remaining guideline when entering domains of such a high level of abstraction that no concrete tests or observations can decide between rival models. In mathematical modelling of systems, the principle can be made more concrete in the form of the principle of uncertainty maximization: from your data, induce that model which minimizes the number of additional assumptions.
This principle is part of epistemology, and can be motivated by the requirement of maximal simplicity of cognitive models. However, its significance might be extended to metaphysics if it is interpreted as saying that simpler models are more likely to be correct than complex ones, in other words, that "nature" prefers simplicity.
Though the principle may seem rather trivial, it is essential for model building because of what is known as the "underdetermination of theories by data". For a given set of observations or data, there is always an infinite number of possible models explaining those same data. This is because a model normally represents an infinite number of possible cases, of which the observed cases are only a finite subset. The non-observed cases are inferred by postulating general rules covering both actual and potential observations.
For example, through two data points in a diagram you can always draw a straight line, and induce that all further observations will lie on that line. However, you could also draw an infinite variety of the most complicated curves passing through those same two points, and these curves would fit the empirical data just as well. Only Occam's razor would in this case guide you in choosing the "straight" (i.e. linear) relation as best candidate model. A similar reasoning can be made for n data points lying in any kind of distribution.
Occam's razor is especially important for universal models such as the ones developed in General Systems Theory, mathematics or philosophy, because there the subject domain is of an unlimited complexity. If one starts with too complicated foundations for a theory that potentially encompasses the universe, the chances of getting any manageable model are very slim indeed. Moreover, the principle is sometimes the only remaining guideline when entering domains of such a high level of abstraction that no concrete tests or observations can decide between rival models. In mathematical modelling of systems, the principle can be made more concrete in the form of the principle of uncertainty maximization: from your data, induce that model which minimizes the number of additional assumptions.
This principle is part of epistemology, and can be motivated by the requirement of maximal simplicity of cognitive models. However, its significance might be extended to metaphysics if it is interpreted as saying that simpler models are more likely to be correct than complex ones, in other words, that "nature" prefers simplicity.
One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything
by onomiyaki July 10, 2005
Get the Occam's razor mug.“Its October 12, who you miss day! And I sure the hell miss my best friend so much!! I wish I could see her soon!”
by Bethany marie October 11, 2018
Get the october 12 mug.This happens when you are so addicted to Facebook that you keep going to your Facebook even though you don't have that much things to do on Facebook or ran out of apps or games to play. So in the end you will jut scroll up and down and keep on reading your friends' updates and stuffs. It is like you feel a need to go to your Facebook homepage every now and then even you know that you got nothing much to do there.
"Hey why is it like I see you using Facebook forever when you are just reading other people's updates and doing nothing else?"
"I don't know, I just feel like there's a need to use it."
"Then I think you have a very serious case of Obsessive-Compulsive Facebook Disorder (OCFD)."
"I don't know, I just feel like there's a need to use it."
"Then I think you have a very serious case of Obsessive-Compulsive Facebook Disorder (OCFD)."
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