This mischief insinuates itself more subtly into philosophy and the sciences: there, when a proposition has found favour it colours other propositions and brings them into line with itself, even when they ·in their undisguised form· are sounder and better than it is.
A kinda example of this: the idea of minimum description length and solomonoff induction colours Occam’s razor. But I wouldn’t say that Occam’s razor in its original form is better.
A kinda example of this: the idea of minimum description length and solomonoff induction colours Occam’s razor. But I wouldn’t say that Occam’s razor in its original form is better.