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By parsimony one rejects the more complicated theory.

In Reply to: ...and meager minds posted by Stoller on November 24, 1999 at 23:28:57:

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: : : Which is why I said: Marx's LTV is quite consistent---but it is also complicated. There are many qualifications and special catagories.

: Don: Complicated theories with qualifications and special catagories are rejected in favor of simple theories.

: Enjoy Atlas Shruggled and Time magazine then...

Don: By parsimony one rejects the more complicated theory. Marxist theory seems to be quite akward and complicated, assuming it does have all the answers--something I have yet to be convinced of.

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