Famous-Razors on Scholionhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/tags/famous-razors/Recent content in Famous-Razors on ScholionHugo -- gohugo.iopt-BR© 2026Wed, 27 May 2026 21:26:22 +0100Muphry's law: If you write anything criticising editing or proofreading, there will be a fault of some kind in what you have writtenhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/muphry-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:50 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/muphry-law/Variação da lei de Murphy para revisão e edição, registrada por John Bangsund em março de 1992 no Society of Editors Newsletter de Victoria, Austrália.Godwin's law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches onehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/godwin-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:40 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/godwin-law/Formulada por Mike Godwin em 1990 na Usenet, como experimento memético para desencorajar comparações banais com nazismo.Gell-Mann amnesia effect: You find errors in news about subjects you know, then trust news about subjects you don'thttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/gell-mann-amnesia/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:30 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/gell-mann-amnesia/Termo cunhado por Michael Crichton em palestra de 26 de abril de 2002 (‘Why Speculate?’). O nome homenageia ironicamente o físico Murray Gell-Mann.Linus's law: Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallowhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/linus-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:20 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/linus-law/Formulada por Eric S. Raymond em ‘The Cathedral and the Bazaar’ (1999) e batizada em homenagem a Linus Torvalds.Betteridge's law of headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word nohttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/betteridge-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:10 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/betteridge-law/Formulada por Ian Betteridge em artigo de fevereiro de 2009. Máxima similar circulava antes sob outros nomes, como ‘Davis’s law’ em compilações de 1991.Poe's law: Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is utterly impossible to parody a Creationist in such a way that someone won't mistake for the genuine articlehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/poe-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:15:00 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/poe-law/Formulada por Nathan Poe em 10 de agosto de 2005, no fórum ChristianForums.com, durante debate criacionismo-evolução. Generalizada depois para qualquer posição extrema.Sturgeon's law: Ninety percent of everything is craphttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/sturgeon-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:50 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/sturgeon-law/Formulada por Theodore Sturgeon em palestra de 1951 na NYU. Primeira publicação escrita: Venture Magazine, setembro de 1957. Sturgeon chamava de ‘Sturgeon’s Revelation’.Cunningham's law: The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answerhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/cunningham-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:40 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/cunningham-law/Atribuída a Ward Cunningham, inventor do wiki. Nomeada por Steven McGeady no início dos anos 1980; o próprio Cunningham rejeita a autoria.Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce ithttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/brandolini-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:30 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/brandolini-law/Princípio da assimetria do bullshit. Formulado por Alberto Brandolini num tweet de janeiro de 2013, inspirado por Kahneman e debates televisivos italianos.Morgan's canon: In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scalehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/morgan-canon/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:20 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/morgan-canon/Princípio de parcimônia em psicologia comparada. Formulado por C. Lloyd Morgan em ‘An Introduction to Comparative Psychology’ (1894).Occam's broom: Inconvenient facts are whisked under the rughttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/occam-broom/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:10 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/occam-broom/Inversão irônica da navalha de Occam. Cunhada pelo biólogo Sidney Brenner e popularizada por Daniel Dennett em ‘Intuition Pumps’ (2013).Hume's guillotine: One cannot derive an 'ought' from an 'is'https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/humes-guillotine/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:14:00 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/humes-guillotine/Princípio de David Hume no ‘Treatise of Human Nature’ (1739). O nome ‘guillotine’ foi cunhado depois por Alasdair MacIntyre.Popper's falsifiability: A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientifichttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/popper-falsifiability/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:13:50 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/popper-falsifiability/Critério de demarcação entre ciência e pseudociência. Popper formulou em ‘Logik der Forschung’ (1934), traduzido como ‘The Logic of Scientific Discovery’ (1959).Einstein's razor: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simplerhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/einstein-razor/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:13:40 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/einstein-razor/Paráfrase popular de Einstein. A formulação canônica está na palestra de Oxford de 1933, ‘On the Method of Theoretical Physics’.Clarke's third law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magichttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/clarke-third-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:39:30 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/clarke-third-law/Publicada em carta à revista Science em 19 de janeiro de 1968 e incorporada à revisão de 1973 de ‘Profiles of the Future’.Clarke's second law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossiblehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/clarke-second-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:39:00 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/clarke-second-law/Aparece no mesmo ensaio de 1962 como observação solta. Virou ‘segunda lei’ só em 1973, quando Clarke acrescentou a terceira.Clarke's first law: When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; when he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wronghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/clarke-first-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:38:30 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/clarke-first-law/Publicada por Arthur C. Clarke em ‘Hazards of Prophecy’, ensaio de ‘Profiles of the Future’ (1962). Só chamada de ‘primeira lei’ depois da segunda e terceira.Grey's Law: Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malicehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/greys-law/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:38:00 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/greys-law/Paródia da 3ª lei de Clarke. Atribuição a ‘Grey’ não corroborada; registro mais antigo é de 2002 em Usenet.Newton's flaming laser sword: What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debatinghttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/newtons-flaming-laser-sword/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:37:30 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/newtons-flaming-laser-sword/Publicada por Mike Alder em ‘Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword’ (Philosophy Now nº 46, 2004). Mais agressiva que a navalha de Occam.Sagan standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidencehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/sagan-standard/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:37:00 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/sagan-standard/Popularizada por Carl Sagan em ‘Cosmos’ (1980). Formulações anteriores: Truzzi (1975), Laplace (1810), Hume (1748).Hitchens's razor: What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidencehttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/hitchens-razor/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:36:30 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/hitchens-razor/Publicada por Christopher Hitchens em ‘God Is Not Great’ (2007). Raiz latina: ‘Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur’.Occam's razor: Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessityhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/occam-razor/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:36:00 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/occam-razor/Princípio atribuído a Guilherme de Ockham (séc. XIV). A versão latina famosa é de John Punch (1639); Ockham escreveu variantes próximas.Hanlon's razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidityhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/never-attribute-to-malice/Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:35:58 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/never-attribute-to-malice/Formulação de 1980 de Robert J. Hanlon em ‘Murphy’s Law Book Two’. A atribuição a Napoleão é mito sem fonte primária.Parkinson's Lawhttps://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/parkinsons-law/Sat, 04 Apr 2026 08:10:37 +0100https://scholion.thluiz.com/notes/parkinsons-law/Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.