RichardKennaway comments on A Priori - Less Wrong

32 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 08 October 2007 09:02PM

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Comment author: idlewire 17 July 2009 03:45:23PM 3 points [-]

Could you not argue Occam's Razor from the conjunction fallacy? The more components that are required to be true, the less likely they are all simultaneously true. Propositions with less components are therefore more likely, or does that not follow?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 23 September 2015 10:05:51AM 1 point [-]

Propositions with more parts are not necessarily merely the conjunction of those parts. "A or B" and "A and B" may both be the same amount of complexity, by whatever measure, more than A.