Occam's razor—the principle of simplicity—has recently been attacked as a cultural bias without rational foundation. Increasingly, belief in pseudoscience and mysticism is growing. I argue that inclusion of Occam's razor is an essential factor that distinguishes science from superstition and pseudoscience. I also describe how the razor is embedded in Bayesian inference and argue that science is primarily the means to discover the simplest descriptions of our world.

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剃刀锋利：奥卡姆剃刀在科学中的作用


奥卡姆剃刀——简单性原则——最近被攻击为一种没有理性基础的文化偏见。人们对伪科学和神秘主义的信仰日益增长。我认为，奥卡姆剃刀的纳入是区分科学与迷信和伪科学的重要因素。我还描述了剃刀如何嵌入贝叶斯推理，并认为科学主要是发现我们世界最简单描述的手段。