Hitchens' razor
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Epistemological razor regarding the burden of proof
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Within Vinony's link graph, Hitchens' razor is referenced by 150 other articles, and connects out to Occam's razor, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and evidentialism.
It sits within the topics Adages, Agnosticism and Christopher Hitchens.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- philosophical razor
- Named after
- Occam's razor
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- facet of
- big lie
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- philosophy
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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.
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