Occam’s razor states that the most likely explanation for something is the one that requires the fewest assumptions. Your explanation - that the cat’s owner regularly bathes the cat for no good reason - requires large assumptions about the owner that there is no evidence for. It is therefore not the answer that Occam’s razor leads to
Okay. What are we talking about? I honestly don’t care about the person in the OP, they may or may not be someone who bathes their cat regularly and I have nothing but this posting. How does this affect the fact that it’s not the best idea to bathe cats unless there’s a very good, specific reason?
Are you getting threads mixed up? The only thing I’ve been arguing is that there is no reason to think that the cat’s owner does bathe the cat without a good cause
You assuming this person’s habits is not the explanation that requires the fewest assumptions
it’s actually funny just how many assumptions were just embedded into that “Occam’s razor”
Such as?
they regularly bathe their cat
some places of the world that’s what they do
they’re from one of those places
they’ve done this before but haven’t realized how much the cat hates it
they’ve done this before but this time the cat hated it more
they’ve not only done this before but also have thought about taking a picture next time
they’ve forgotten to do it last time
this time they remembered because they, as we all know by now, have thought about it before
I was offering possible reasons why they’d take a picture now, despite the bathing possibly not being an unusual occurrence. Speculation.
Sorry, I honestly don’t understand this sentence.
Occam’s razor states that the most likely explanation for something is the one that requires the fewest assumptions. Your explanation - that the cat’s owner regularly bathes the cat for no good reason - requires large assumptions about the owner that there is no evidence for. It is therefore not the answer that Occam’s razor leads to
It requires the assumption that the person has a cat and lives in a country where they commonly bathe cats.
Is that fewer assumptions than “there was a good reason to wash the cat”?
You’ve also assumed that:
“There may be more information elsewhere” is always implied or we couldn’t talk about anything at all ever.
The belief that there isn’t more information despite knowing we don’t have the original source is the assumption
Okay. What are we talking about? I honestly don’t care about the person in the OP, they may or may not be someone who bathes their cat regularly and I have nothing but this posting. How does this affect the fact that it’s not the best idea to bathe cats unless there’s a very good, specific reason?
Are you getting threads mixed up? The only thing I’ve been arguing is that there is no reason to think that the cat’s owner does bathe the cat without a good cause