April Fools Through Occam?s Razor: A Case for Pranks, Hoaxes, and Practical Jokes

The Principle of Occam’s Razor states “the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in observable predictions of explanatory hypothesis or theory.  The principle is most often expressed as Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, or entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.” Okay, what [...]