After all, a formalization of Occam’s razor is supposed to be useful in order to be considered rational.
Declaring a mathematical abstraction useless just because it is not practically applicable to whatever your purpose may be is pretty short-sighted. The concept of infinity isn’t useful to engineers, but it’s very useful to mathematicians. Does that make it irrational?
Declaring a mathematical abstraction useless just because it is not practically applicable to whatever your purpose may be is pretty short-sighted. The concept of infinity isn’t useful to engineers, but it’s very useful to mathematicians. Does that make it irrational?