If not, then maybe it’s a waste of your time. The epistemological razor, Hitchens’ Razor, has been mentioned to me quite a bit over the years.

I've long been a fan of Christopher Hitchens, the British author, journalist and raconteur who asserted this epistemological razor for dealing with the wild claims of the confidently ...

- Hitchens Razor It places the burden of evidence on the claim’s advocates, not opponents. Without proof, the burden is not met, the claim unfounded, and no further argument needed. Parenthetically, I ...

After receiving a bit of response to last week’s entry in this series, I decided to do a follow-up that delves a little into the subject of atheism.

Known as “Hitchens’s Razor,” it serves as a handy rhetorical implement for dismissing—“shaving off”—opponents’ empty arguments from Authority.) ...