The age old sages who perfected the art of cutting the fat

Even if you are pretty solid in your understanding of life, we can always get great reminders from the older, wiser people who have come before us. I do enjoy the fact that they are all grouped together. A couple of rules of thumb to help navigate through life.<br/><br/>Occam's razor: Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct;<br/><br/>Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.<br/><br/>Hitchens's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.<br/><br/>Hume's guillotine: What&#160;ought&#160;to be cannot be deduced from what&#160;is. <br/><br/>Alder's razor: If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.<br/><br/>Sagan standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.<br/><br/>Popper's falsifiability principle: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable.<br/><br/>Grice's&#160;razor: Conversational&#160;implications&#160;are to be preferred over semantic context for&#160;linguistic&#160;explanations.<br/><br/>&#8220;For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love&#8230;&#8221;<br/><br/>&#8213; Carl Sagan <br/><br/>Get on the email list at <a href="https://thoughtarchitecture.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">thoughtarchitecture.substack.com</a>