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work_ffpjrgossjb3rdhs22t3pmqjte	Simon Fitzpatrick	Kelly on Ockham's Razor and Truth-Finding Efficiency	2013	23	.pdf	application/pdf	6013	356	55	Kelly on Ockhams Razor and truth finding efficiency-final Kelly on Ockham's Razor and Truth-Finding Efficiency This paper discusses Kevin Kelly's recent attempt to justify Ockham's Razor in terms of truthfinding efficiency. shown to provide the most efficient method for finding the true theory, even if the truth is that does the work in Kelly's proposal is efficient convergence to the truth in the limit. Compared with all these gruesome methods, Ockham's Razor guarantees the lowest worstcase costs in terms of retractions and lost time entertaining false theories. Kelly's long-run notion of reliability fails to warrant confidence in the predictive content of a to Ockham's Razor, if simplicity really does play such a fundamental role in theory choice that Ockham's Razor is as important to the scientific method as Kelly and others have suggested, scientific theory choice, truth-finding efficiency fails to provide the right justification for this "Justification as Truth-Finding Efficiency: How Ockham's Razor Works." 	./cache/work_ffpjrgossjb3rdhs22t3pmqjte.pdf	./txt/work_ffpjrgossjb3rdhs22t3pmqjte.txt