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Originally Posted by mike alexander
I will agree that parsimony is a tool, not an absolute rule. But I must ask why different realms of experience must be assumed to follow the same rules, that the rules are scale-invariant.
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For sure, that's the question. My point is pragmatic--the tried and true categories that have served us so well in the macroscopic regime are not to be given up lightly. If they can be retained, they should--even if that entails considerable mathematical cost.