Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!news.moat.net!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!pd7cy2so!pd7cy1no!shaw.ca!pd7tw2no.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail X-Trace-PostClient-IP: 24.85.195.71 From: Vernon North Newsgroups: rec.arts.anime.misc,soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.korean Subject: Re: If japanimation isnt that popular in japan...... Message-ID: References: <1118386316.417924.71670@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1119859564.695311.284750@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com> <1119907102.466935.158000@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com> <1120001056.367364.275450@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Newsreader: MicroPlanet Gravity v2.60 Lines: 35 Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2005 00:54:44 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.59.144.74 X-Complaints-To: abuse@shaw.ca X-Trace: pd7tw2no 1120006484 64.59.144.74 (Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:54:44 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 18:54:44 MDT Organization: Shaw Residential Internet Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:28162 In article <1120001056.367364.275450@g47g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>, superoutland@aol.com says... > Occam's razor dictates that whatever has the least unfounded > assumptions is most likely to be accurate. No it doesn't. Occam's razor is a logical principle stating that one should not make more assumptions than the minimum needed. It admonishes us to choose from a set of otherwise equivalent models of a given phenomenon the simplest one. > > 3 is not a founded assumption for the reasons i stated; Your opinion on this is an assumption . . . or do you have data to back it up? > its plainly not > a large market, That's an assumption. > yet they produce a ton of it. That's an assumption. > If anything, number 2 > makes the most sense, by sort of "gambling" their artistic works. Another assumption. Got any facts to contribute? Verno