Occam: The simplest explanation is usually – but not always – the correct one Sa

Occam: The simplest explanation is usually – but not always – the correct one
Sagan: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
Hitchens: What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence
Hume: Causes must be sufficiently able to produce the effect assigned to them
Popper: For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be possible to disprove or refute it
Grice’s: Address what the speaker actually meant, instead of addressing the literal meaning of what they actually said
Hanlon: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence or stupidity
Doolittle: If you can’t testify to it then you can’t claim it’s true.