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occams razor is an older enactment of a principle of parsimony. all it amounts to is a preference for a simpler (or more general) explanation if you are selecting from amongst a range of possible explanations.
aside: the more powerful arguments that lead from a basically agnostic position regarding this god character toward atheism is an argument from consequences of adopting a theist or non-theist starting point. this generlly runs you toward the political implications of one or another. on those grounds, you can introduce questions of proof/evidence.
for example, if you adopt a premise based on a god-character, it generally follows that human beings do not create meanings, but rather that they find them. there are significant political consequences that follow from this.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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