{"id":1663,"date":"2009-05-01T08:28:59","date_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2009-05-01T08:28:59","modified_gmt":"2009-05-01T16:28:59","slug":"a-slice-with-ockhams-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"A Slice with Ockham's Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working on that less formal explanation of my paper has paid another dividend.<\/p><p>The model in the paper has involved six propositions, which function like axiomata, specifically about choices concerning lotteries.  I have known for some time that these weren't orthogonal &mdash; that there was <q>overlap<\/q> amongst what they said.  It is at best unfortunate to have that sort of redundancy in foundational propositions.  But I'd not seen how to reduce it.<\/p><p>This morning, after describing those propositions less formally, and then considering what to say about the theoremata that follow, I started to see how to turn one of those propositions into a theorem.  After a bit of musing and fretting, I've effected the change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Working on that less formal explanation of my paper has paid another dividend.The model in the paper has involved six propositions, which function like axiomata, specifically about choices concerning lotteries. I have known for some time that these weren't orthogonal &mdash; that there was overlap amongst what they said. It is at best unfortunate to [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,36,5,4],"tags":[299,445,446],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-communication","category-economics","category-personal","category-public","tag-decision-theory","tag-papers","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}