Identification of Booth's body

[RJNorton]

(10-23-2018 02:41 PM)mikegriffith1 Wrote:  As a longtime student of critical thinking, I am a big fan of Occam's Razor.

Mr. James O. Hall wrote:

"The 'switch theory' violates an old rule that every historian should learn early. This was best stated by William Ockham, a fourteenth century English logician. Today this is known to researchers as 'Ockham's razor.' This dictum asserts that when a phenomenon can be interpreted in several ways, the preferred explanation is that involving the fewest assumptions."