Why favour simplicity?
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 concernin...
| Publicado en: | Analysis Vol. 65; no. 3; pp. 205 - 211 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jul2005
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