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Newton's flaming laser sword

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Etymology

Named after Isaac Newton. Coined by Australian mathematician and philosopher Mike Alder in 2004 in an article of the same title, to be hyperbolically “much sharper and more dangerous than Occam's razor”.

Definitions

  1. A philosophical razor which states that propositions or claims that cannot be resolved…

    A philosophical razor which states that propositions or claims that cannot be resolved through experiment or observation are not worth debating.

    • Mathematicians and scientists feel that they have found a more difficult but much more satisfying game to play. Newton's Flaming Laser Sword is one of the rules of that game.
    • Also, I invoke Newton's Flaming Laser Sword on this thread.
    • I prefer to be anti-religion and live by Newton's flaming laser sword, Occam's Razor and Hanlon's Razor.

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