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    Challenges→Anthropectomy and anthropomorphism are equally serious errors

    Morgan's Canon, as a methodological principle, reflects Occam's Razor—preferring simpler explanations is epistemically rational, not merely conventional.

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    • 1.Simpler explanations require fewer unfounded assumptions, reducing epistemic risk and aligning with logical parsimony principles.
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    • 2.Empirically, simpler theories have historically proven more predictive and generalizable across domains than unnecessarily complex alternatives.
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    • 3.Rational agents should minimize explanatory posits not justified by evidence, making simplicity a rational preference, not mere convention.
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    • 1.Nature may be fundamentally complex; preferring simplicity imposes human cognitive bias rather than tracking objective truth about reality.
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    • 2.Occam's Razor conflates explanatory simplicity with mathematical elegance—distinct concepts sometimes favoring opposite conclusions.
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    • 3.Simpler explanations often fail in quantum mechanics and biology, suggesting simplicity is pragmatically useful but not epistemically rational.
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