Hul-Gil comments on A Priori - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Hul-Gil 30 May 2011 04:30:24AM *  2 points [-]

(More necromancy!)

I thought Occam's Razor was justified by the fact that every new proposition involved necessarily increased the number of ways in which the entire explanation could fail. Then you require evidence for yet another belief, and since you cannot be 100% accurate in any of your propositions, your accuracy continually decreases as well.