Hitchens' razor
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Epistemological razor regarding the burden of proof
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Encyclopedic overview
Hitchens's razor is a general rule for rejecting certain claims of knowledge. It states:
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Hitchens' razor” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.