| Summary: | The article suggests some steps one can take toward reducing the embarrassment of being simple, by showing that the assumption that supports favoring simplicity is far more modest than it first seems. The article author extrapolates from observed regularities with some measure of ignorance concerning the causal mechanisms that give rise to them. It may be helpful, therefore, to consider how one ought to theorize about a certain idealized model of a regularity producing mechanism, and then see how well this serves as a model for ordinary physical systems.
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