what is the origin of ocum's razor?
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Occam's razor is a logical principle attributed to the mediaeval philosopher William of Occam (or Ockham).\n\nThe principle states that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. This principle is often called the principle of parsimony. It underlies all scientific modelling and theory building. It admonishes us to choose from a set of otherwise equivalent models of a given phenomenon the simplest one. In any given model, Occam's razor helps us to "shave off" those concepts, variables or constructs that are not really needed to explain the phenomenon. By doing that, developing the model will become much easier, and there is less chance of introducing inconsistencies, ambiguities and redundancies.\nThough the principle may seem rather trivial, it is essential for model building because of what is known as the "underdetermination of theories by data". For a given set of observations or data, there is always an infinite number of possible models explaining those same data. This is because a model normally represents an infinite number of possible cases, of which the observed cases are only a finite subset. The non-observed cases are inferred by postulating general rules covering both actual and potential observations. \n\nFor example, through two data points in a diagram you can always draw a straight line, and induce that all further observations will lie on that line. However, you could also draw an infinite variety of the most complicated curves passing through those same two points, and these curves would fit the empirical data just as well. Only Occam's razor would in this case guide you in choosing the "straight" (i.e. linear) relation as best candidate model. A similar reasoning can be made for n data points lying in any kind of distribution. \n\nOccam's razor is especially important for universal models such as the ones developed in General Systems Theory, mathematics or philosophy, because there the subject domain is of an unlimited complexity. If one starts with too complicated foundations for a theory that potentially encompasses the universe, the chances of getting any manageable model are very slim indeed. Moreover, the principle is sometimes the only remaining guideline when entering domains of such a high level of abstraction that no concrete tests or observations can decide between rival models. In mathematical modelling of systems, the principle can be made more concrete in the form of the principle of uncertainty maximization: from your data, induce that model which minimizes the number of additional assumptions. \n\nThis principle is part of epistemology, and can be motivated by the requirement of maximal simplicity of cognitive models. However, its significance might be extended to metaphysics if it is interpreted as saying that simpler models are more likely to be correct than complex ones, in other words, that "nature" prefers simplicity.
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what about schick. they make razors, not as big as gillette, but they still make razors.\n\nAre you after company history? Go to their website
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the answer is the answer to this question - what does a guy use in a razor to shave?
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LOL this is the 2nd question I saw from you and I think I kinda like you hahaha.  I've always shaved since as far back as I can remember so prob the mid to late 80's (since Im 31) dont know why I started, if I saw it or what --- but I guess it's the whole what looks good thing, and who wants all nasty hairy ------- ya know?
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1382, "males or females collectively," from Latin sexus "state of being either male or female, gender." "Commonly taken with seco as division or 'half' of the race" [Tucker], which would connect it to secare "to divide or cut" (see section). Meaning "quality of being male or female" first recorded 1526. Meaning "sexual intercourse" first attested 1929 (in writings of D.H. Lawrence); meaning "genitalia" is attested from 1938. Sexy first recorded 1925 (as an Eng. word in Fr.), originally "engrossed in sex;" sense of "sexually attractive" is 1932. Sex appeal first recorded 1924; sex drive is from 1918; sex object and sex symbol both first attested 1911, the former in ref. to Jesus. Sexpot is from 1954. Sexpert "sex therapist" is from 1924. Sexploitation is attested from 1942.
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No...but I have been in one at Gillette...the Razor
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in the nether-regions.\n\nWhy?\n'Cause my girlfriend wanted me to.\n\n--\n\nNever 100% shave, because it'll get a lil itchy. So trimming is the best way.\n\nKeeping it clean.
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"Pommel" originally comes from the word for an apple and was first used for a round ornament etc, it then came to apply to the knob at the end of a sword or dagger handle and from about 1450 was also applied to the projecting front part of a saddle and, because the 'handles' on the type of horse you specify resemble those that is why the name arose.
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Your skin is probably getting irritated by your razor.  It will take time for your skin to get used to it but over time it should go away.
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With the advent of rampant sexuality(most of it with not love or commitment involved)at least here in America. I think the scales tip slightly to the Brazillian look(all gone). Because as the stigma agains oral stimulation has dropped and more women are allowing it to be done to them, and more men are willing to do it. They do not have to worry about getting hair in their teeth. As a whole I would prefer it all gone unless an Asian woman then it can be sexy both ways. Maybe because they have finer pubic hair, less coarse. Those who have shaved and trimed like a golf green can also be sexy on the right woman. Some have the myth that the absence of hair means a girl is cleaner. False. If she is clean, she is clean hair or no hair. Secretly, (and many will deny it)a clean shaven woman is like a simulated pubescent female(why do you think they sell so many school girl getups on Ebay??
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Not everything comes from Hollywood...\n\nThe "John Doe" custom dates back to the reign of England's King Edward III, during the legal debate over something called the Acts of Ejectment. This debate involved a hypothetical landowner, referred to as "John Doe," who leased land to another man, the equally fictitious "Richard Roe," who then took the land as his own and "ejected," or evicted, poor "John Doe."
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Because if you want to give the idea that he is very attractive to Jane, you have to make him the standard of what is good looking to the public watching the film/reading the book. So they make him clean shaven.\nPrimates have also discovered how to use primitive tools and do create sharpened tools to cut items, so a razor isn't that far out of the realm of possibilities. The only fallacy would be that he would think to use it that way since no other apes shave.
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the answer is - what does a man use to put in a razor to shave??? ;)
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Interesting question. Check this quote:\n\n"Debate about the origins of syphilis has continued for nearly 500 years, ever since early sixteenth-century Europeans blamed each other, referring to it variously as the Venetian, Naples, or French disease. One hypothesis assumes a New World origin, and holds that sailors who accompanied Columbus and other explorers brought the disease back to Europe. Another explanation is that syphilis was always present in the Old World but was not identified as a separate disease from leprosy before about A.D. 1500. A third possibility is that syphilis developed in both hemispheres from the related diseases bejel and yaws."\n\nI got this from this site:\n\nhttp://www.archaeology.org/9701/newsbriefs/syphilis.html
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The phrase in this form started out in the 1950s as an offshoot of "excuse my French."  This is a result of racial stereotyping - Anglo-Saxons of the late 19th century blamed the French for anything remotely dirty.  The belief started in the mid 19th century and held that was France sex-obsessed and pornographic.
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Literally there WAS a Female that actually WAS BORN as a Female. She sorta shaved her head to look male and acted such as a male. I forget the years/date(s) she got away with it. But it DID actually exist. IF my memory IS correct, it was in the 1700s AD. She was Italian.
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This originated in the early 1980s. It is generally regarded as an American expression. This item from the New York newspaper the Syracuse Herald-American, Feb. 1982, which is the earliest version in print that I can find, puts that in some doubt. It's in a piece by Jerry Buck, writing out of Los Angeles, about actress Lauren Tewes