kilgoar's Shortform

Occam's razor is well known, but few seem to understand its origin from within the anti-rationalist backdrop of his theology. Duns Scotus makes a coherent proof for God, but it is also a trivial and ridiculous exercise. Occam's brilliant contribution to theology was this more clever idea of a God not bound by human conventions or conceptions. His "razor" has indeed become somewhat of a convention itself, and it is entirely unwise to proceed on the presumption that Nature should be elegant, coherent, or consistent with rational discourse, which is at the end of the day no more than rhetoric. The word "Dunce" is etymologically meaning a practitioner of logical thought who has begun with the false presumption that the human mind is complex enough to reduce Nature into a set of axioms and process these into provisional or final conclusions.