Hodges' Model: Welcome to the QUAD: Whether, wherever, whatever you shave - you need Occam's razor

Hodges' model is a conceptual framework to support reflection and critical thinking. Situated, the model can help integrate all disciplines (academic and professional). Amid news items, are posts that illustrate the scope and application of the model. A bibliography and A4 template are provided in the sidebar. Welcome to the QUAD ...

Thursday, September 28, 2023

Whether, wherever, whatever you shave - you need Occam's razor

Can Hodges' model be honed by students from day #1 - 'Intro lecture 101',
 across all curricula to function as a form of Occam's razor -
a reflective and critical thinking tool
to last a lifetime's learning (and unlearning)?
 

INDIVIDUAL
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     INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               
HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      
SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 
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GROUP

Occam's razor:

"entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".

"It urges us to choose the simplest explanations or models for any phenomenon we observe."

William of Ockham, born around 1285.

"It has been a tool for scientific progress, not to mention a guiding principle for our thoughts, right up to the present day."
 
Hodges' model:
a tool for 
individual learners
and communities of practice.

"He was, I believe, the first person to so clearly separate science from its religious tethers, a move crucial to science's subsequent secular development."



McFadden, J. (2021) Razor sharp, New Scientist, 18-25 December. 252:3365/66. pp.70-71.