Hmm, I like that. I wonder what A&M would say in response. And I agree this is an important and relevant difference between the case of preferences and the case of science.
I still don’t think A&M show that the simplest explanation is a degenerate decomposition. They show that if it is, then Occam’s Razor won’t be sufficient, and moreover that there are some degenerate decompositions pretty close to maximally simple. But they don’t do much to rule out the possibility that the simplest explanation is the intended one.
Hmm, I like that. I wonder what A&M would say in response. And I agree this is an important and relevant difference between the case of preferences and the case of science.
I still don’t think A&M show that the simplest explanation is a degenerate decomposition. They show that if it is, then Occam’s Razor won’t be sufficient, and moreover that there are some degenerate decompositions pretty close to maximally simple. But they don’t do much to rule out the possibility that the simplest explanation is the intended one.