Occam’s Deepest Cut
The razor doesn’t just point at truth: it defines it
6 min readJan 6, 2023
The planets orbit the Sun.
This is something we’d call a “true fact” about our universe. It overturned a previous false fact: that everything in our sky revolved around the Earth in nested cycles and epicycles.
But why did we overturn the older Ptolemaic model with Copernicus’ heliocentric…