11 Razors You Can Use to Keep Your Analysis Stubble Free

From the experts at The Mind Collection

#	Name	Summary
1	Sagan’s Standard	Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
2	Grice’s Razor	Address what someone meant to say instead of the literal meaning of the words.
3	Hume’s Guillotine	What ought to be cannot be deduced from what is.
4	Alder’s Razor	If it cannot be settled by observation or experiment, it’s not worth debating at all.
5	Feynman’s Razor	If you can’t explain something simply, then you don’t really understand it.
6	Hitchen’s Razor	What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
7	Occam’s Razor	Simpler explanations are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions.
8	Hanlon’s Razor	Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. (British pithiness : "Cock-up before conspiracy")
9	Riker’s Razor	If someone’s incompetence is too staggering to be true, they’re most likely faking it and you should find out why.
10	Jung’s Razor	If you cannot understand why someone did something, look at the consequences — and infer the motivation.
11	Chatton’s Anti-Razor	If three things are not enough to verify an affirmative proposition about things, a fourth must be added and so on.