Newton's flaming laser sword

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  1. A philosophical razor which states that propositions or claims that cannot be resolved through experiment or observation are not worth debating.
    — Mathematicians and scientists feel that they have found a more difficult but much more satisfying game to play. Newton's Flaming Laser Sword is one of the rules of that game.

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Named after Isaac Newton. Coined by Australian mathematician and philosopher Mike Alder in 2004 in an article of the same title, to be hyperbolically “much sharper and more dangerous than Occam's razor”.
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