A theory requiring systematic reinterpretation of foundational theological data to avoid contradiction is, by Ockhamist parsimony standards, less credible than unitarian alternatives.
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A 14th-century English philosopher known for arguing that explanations should be kept simple and that we shouldn't assume more things exist than necessary.
systematic reinterpretation(Quine's method for showing theories can be equivalent)
The process of carefully reassigning what all the terms and concepts in a theory mean, in a coordinated way, so the theory still makes the same predictions but describes things completely differently.