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2006-08-18 20:07:13 · 11 answers · asked by Andrew 3 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
You would get a hairless live/dead cat. If no one were in the forest, would they hear the cat meow?
2006-08-18 20:16:33 · answer #1 · answered by Curious1usa 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Occam"s razor is construed as a decision procedure for choosing among competing systems of hypotheses. Every time you think something it changes the outcome so the answer changes. It doesn't matter where the box is just what you think. I prefer the cat to be alive and out of the box. Guess a forest is better than being in a desert with no food or water or the cat wouldn't servive out of the box.
2006-08-20 09:57:33 · answer #2 · answered by flower wanda 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If or when you open the box the cat may be alive or dead because you opened or did not open it. Therefore by opening the box or not opening the box you are condemning the cat to a life that may or may not use many of its nine lives very quickly.
The most obvious answer is gained by opening the box ,or not, determining that the cat is alive or dead. But the most obvious answer probably will allude you because you opened or did not open the box in the first place.
Of course by being out in the woods no one will hear any of this and it will have never happened in the first place.
2006-08-19 22:54:22 · answer #3 · answered by baudeagle 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The dead cat will chase the undead cat while Occam's razor sits by quietly making no assumptions about either.
2006-08-19 03:17:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I'm pretty sure that the cat would freak out and not wanting to trip the hammer would carefully pick up the razor so as to not inadvertantly unleash a bombardment of atoms and slit his little kitty wrists.
2006-08-19 03:16:28 · answer #5 · answered by Arch Teryx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pascal would wager that if the box fell and no one was there to hear it , it wouldn't make a sound.
2006-08-19 03:14:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You might find a simple answer to the riddles of time ... or you might find a an idiot that no one would hear anyway.
Jonnie
2006-08-19 03:15:20 · answer #7 · answered by Jonnie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before you do this, I hope that you are stuck by Zeno's paradox and therefore unable to move.
2006-08-25 09:34:14 · answer #8 · answered by GreenHornet 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hell would freeze over and you wouldn't hear a thing.
2006-08-19 03:13:59 · answer #9 · answered by Splinter 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
good one-- but silly!!! I love interesting navel gazing
2006-08-19 06:51:01 · answer #10 · answered by virginia o 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋