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If you're not confident in the authority of the Scriptures, you will be a slave to what sounds right.

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Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

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Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

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For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

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My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.

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With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

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