Meaning of Hitchens' razor | Babel Free

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A philosophical razor stating that what can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

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“However, the limitations of a storytelling project such as this seems to be that the notion of validation is unachievable mainly because it falls short of the so-called 'Hitchens's razor': that 'that which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence'.”

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