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Newton's Flaming Laser Sword

Alder's Razor

An anecdote on the conflicting positions of scientists and philosophers on epistemology and knowledge, which can be summarized as, "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating."

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From an essay published in Philosophy Now in 2004. The razor is humorously named after Isaac Newton, as it is inspired by Newtonian thought, and is called a "flaming laser sword" because it is "much sharper and more dangerous than Occam's Razor."