Experimental and theoretical housekeeping
WILLIAM of Occam (or Ockham) provided one of the most powerful – or at the very least the most cited – tools in the box of methodological instruments: his famous razor. Feedback last translated this dictum as “Do not introduce entities without necessity” (7 June 2008). As an example of its application: if you see an object moving impossibly rapidly across the sky, it may well be an unidentified flying object – but before introducing aliens or angels into your cosmology, first try cleaning your glasses and/or rinsing your eye.
Digging deeper, we discover that the
