Actually, I'd disagree about that. Occam's Razor is only about making the superior choice given available data; it doesn't attempt to guarantee the validity of the data either way nor that the choice is necessarily correct. It's just the best one, of the available choices, and given the available data -- like I said in (3) of my post above.
I think that when he says "...the most simple solution is the only one we're justified in adopting" he means that there is no justification for inventing further complexity than is required to explain things. This is different from saying that there is no possibility of a more complex explanation being more correct.
I wonder if the reason you "don't think OR is any help" is that it does not provide an absolute solution? I think we can all agree that that's the case, but we don't agree that it means OR is totally worthless.
Tag (courtesy of fkusumot): "Please feel free -- nay, I encourage you -- to offer rebuttal."
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