Q&A: Actualism and the Better Explanation
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Actualism and the Better Explanation
Question
You explained in the series on learning from experience that according to actualism, Ockham’s razor is not a criterion for truth but for efficiency. That is a claim about us, not about the world. And informativism disagrees with it on this point.
Is it possible to say that they disagree in the same way regarding inference to the best explanation?
Answer
It depends what “BEST” means. If it means the simpler explanation, then it is exactly the same thing.