Occam's razor says that people used primitive tech and slave labor build the pyramids. Arkham's razor says that Satan called in a favor from space aliens to build them in order to make people disbelieve in Jesus hundreds of years before he was born.
by The Logical Fallacy June 05, 2017

I don’t know why he quit, this thing is starting to take off!
Man, that’s arkham's razor, don’t try to understand crazy people!
Man, that’s arkham's razor, don’t try to understand crazy people!
by Justice fer all February 06, 2024

A philosophical device that suggests that if a deliberately public and spectacular crime can be ascribed to an antisocial personality disorder, in particular one of a magnitude great enough to warrant involuntary commitment to a mental institution, then this can be assumed to be the appropriate explanation.
after a deliberately dramatic act of mass violence "I read the guy's manifesto, and he seems like a sociopath. I think we can use Arkham's Razor for this one."
by jpa1708 September 15, 2025
