I see this term float around the internet a lot but to this day the Google definitions have done nothing but confuse me further
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A razor is a fancy way of saying “rule of thumb”. To be more precise, it means that in absence of any other evidence to guide you, remember principle x.
Occam’s razor – assume the simplest explanation as most likely.
Hanlon’s razor – Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
If Theseus’ father followed Occam’s razor, he would have concluded that his son had simply forgotten to put the proper color sail on his ship and would not have killed himself.
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