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\documentclass[avery5371,grid]{flashcards}
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% Font for back side of cards
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\usepackage{fourier}
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\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
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\cardfrontstyle[\LARGE]{headings}
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\cardbackstyle[]{plain} % plain option centers text
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\cardfrontfoot{Adages}
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\setlength{\topskip}{0mm} % Eliminates extra space at top of page
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\setlength{\cardmargin}{6mm} % Increases margin around contents
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\newcounter{rule}
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\setcounter{rule}{1}
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% A new command in case we want to separate what we use to indicate 'number'
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% May need to change this based on the font
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\newcommand{\ksep}{\\ \vspace{5mm} No.}
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% Testing
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\begin{document}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Hanlon's Law}
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Alder's Razor}
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If something cannot be settled by experiment or observation, then it is not worthy of debate.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Grice's Razor}
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As a principle of parsimony, conversational implicatures are to be preferred over semantic context for linguistic explanations.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Hitchen's Razor}
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That which can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Hume's Guillotine}
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What ought to be cannot be deduced from what is; prescriptive claims cannot be derived solely from descriptive claims, and must depend on other prescriptions.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Occam's Razor}
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Explanations which require fewer unjustified assumptions are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbably assumptions.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Popper's Falsifiability Criterion}
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For a theory to be considered scientific, it must be falsifiable.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Philosophical Razor]{Sagan Standard}
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Clarke's First Law}
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When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. \par\vspace{\baselineskip} When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Clarke's Second Law}
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The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the improbable.
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\end{flashcard}
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\begin{flashcard}[Law]{Clarke's Third Law}
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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\end{flashcard}
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\end{document}
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\begin{flashcard}[]{}
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\end{flashcard}
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