But saying "Based on Occam's Razor, my hypothesis is smaller than yours" isn't just as meaningless as long as your intuition stays sufficiently fuzzy and ungrounded?
It's not just a fuzzy intuition, you can try to count the concepts, but ultimately the argument remains informal. But throwing in "informal" Kolmogorov complexity doesn't help, so what's the point of doing that?
However, it is the formalism that our intuition is aspiring to emulate, and to improve our intuition would be to move it further towards the formalized basis it derives from, a move which you seem to reject.
I'm not sure that is the proper formalism, but even if it is, unless it provides actual tools to use in arguments, I think it's not appropriate to use its terminology as buzzwords.
It's not just a fuzzy intuition, you can try to count the concepts, but ultimately the argument remains informal.
Counting concepts is an error-prone, extremely rough approximation of complexity. A fuzzy, undependable version of it, if you will.
It falls to such problems such as (H1: A, B, C) versus (H2: A, D) with D being potentially larger or smaller than (B, C).
Or would you recommend trying to chunk out concepts of similar size? This will invariably lead you to the smallest differing unit, the smallest lexeme of your language of choice...
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