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> In fact, he was killed by a guy that had an obsession on the girl he recently started dating. The killer didn't even take the wallet to make it look like a mugging: he took it because it had pictures of the girl and the dead guy he wanted to add to his "shrine". (Hmm, I should go write for CSI).

But that's not more likely than any one of thousands of other possible explanations which there is no specific evidence for. Proving a negative, that it didn't happen this way, is also not possible. Thus, that the negative cannot be proved is not evidence for this theory either. See Bertrand Russel's Teapot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot.



>But that's not more likely than any one of thousands of other possible explanations which there is no specific evidence for.

True, but the point I wanted to make is that Occam's Razor doesn't give us the "true story", just the more possible given the evidence we have.

I.e sometimes the complex, involved story can be the actual thing that happened, despite involving 20 more entities and complex interactions.




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