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  • We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create.

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    Ian Hacking (1984). “The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inference”, p.142, Cambridge University Press
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We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create. - Ian Hacking
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