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Hume's Razor is a saying commonly known as an “Eponymous Law”, but more accurately as a Philosophical Razor[1] that reads ”If a cause isn’t able to produce the observed effect, we must eliminate it or show what needs to be added to create the effect.”[2].
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophical_razor
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hume
Applied broadly, this particular principle suggests that causes must be sufficiently able to produce the effect assigned to them; for example, a fallen power line isn’t enough to cause a national blackout.
While a philosophical razor can be a useful mental shortcut that allows you to make decisions and solve problems quickly and easily, it is not an unbreakable law or rule[3].
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