[EVA] Adam-Lilith, quite a few spoliers in the long answer
MMKokusaiYK
bochan at fuji.ne.jp
Mon Sep 3 09:52:41 EDT 2001
> I'm unfamilair with both the "Adam to Onaji" reference and the Occam's Razor,
> could someone please elaborate?
The "Adam to onaji" reference comes from a contested line spoken by Misato in
The End of Evangelion when she is explaining the truth about the Angels and Eva
to Shinji.
Occam's razor (actually "Ockham's razor") is an argument against excess
assumptions. A medieval English philosopher, William of Ockham (ca 1300? to
1349?) stated that in the absence of absolute proof, rational assumptions based
on available evidence must be used instead, and these assumptions should be
classified as useful or useless depending on whether deductions made from them
correspond to reality. However, since assumptions are also the weakest point of
any argument, when debating two theories that attempt to explain the same
phenomenon, the argument that explains more with the fewest assumptions (that do
not contradict reality) is the more useful. This effort to "whittle away" at
unnecessary assumptions is known as "Ockham's razor".
Bochan_bird
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