Hitchens's razor
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title:
Hitchens's razor
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Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence". The razor was created by and later named after author and journalist Christopher Hitchens. It implies that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is not met, then the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue fu
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General rule rejecting claims made without evidence
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
date created:
2012-11-02T03:30:21Z
date modified:
2024-09-10T15:55:19Z
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