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The '''Inverted Occam's Razor''' is an ironic metapher for an inverted use of [[Occam's Razor|minimalistic principles]] in Science. This principle is often used in [[Pseudoscience|pseudoscientific]] argumentation, which claims that improbable causes and causal chains make a phenomenon plausible. Typical examples are the study of [[crop circle]] phenomena (Cereology) and of [[UFO]]s
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The '''Inverted Occam's Razor''' is an ironic metapher for an inverted use of [[Occam's Razor|minimalistic principles]] in science. This principle is often used in [[Pseudoscience|pseudo-scientific]] argumentation claiming that improbable causes and causal chains made a phenomenon plausible. Typical examples are the study of [[crop circle]] phenomena (Cereology) and of [[UFO]]s.
  
 
==See also==
 
==See also==
 
*[[Occam's Razor‎]]
 
*[[Occam's Razor‎]]
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[[category:Pseudoscience]]

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The Inverted Occam's Razor is an ironic metapher for an inverted use of minimalistic principles in science. This principle is often used in pseudo-scientific argumentation claiming that improbable causes and causal chains made a phenomenon plausible. Typical examples are the study of crop circle phenomena (Cereology) and of UFOs.

See also

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