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Occam’s Deepest Cut

The razor doesn’t just point at truth: it defines it

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…