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    Ockham's razor demands that positing immaterial intellige... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Moving intelligences of the Aristotelian tradition are not the cause of planetary motion.

    Ockham's razor demands that positing immaterial intelligences is explanatorily superfluous once anima motrix and solar virtus account for all observable planetary phenomena.

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    • 1.Natural forces (anima motrix, solar virtus) directly explain planetary motions without requiring additional ontological commitments.
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    • 2.Immaterial intelligences are unobservable and untestable, making them scientifically sterile additions that violate parsimony principles.
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    • 3.Every prediction made by intelligence-based models can be replicated by mechanistic forces, rendering intelligences explanatorily redundant.
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    • 1.Anima motrix and solar virtus are themselves poorly-defined occult qualities lacking mechanistic explanation—equally mysterious as intelligences.
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    • 2.Ockham's razor eliminates entities, not explanatory frameworks; if intelligences better systematize phenomena, they may be more parsimonious overall.
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    • 3.Observable planetary harmony and mathematical precision may require purposive guidance that blind natural forces cannot adequately account for.
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