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  1. PAC Learning and Occam’s Razor: Probably Approximately Incorrect.Daniel A. Herrmann - 2020 - Philosophy of Science 87 (4):685-703.
    Computer scientists have provided a distinct justification of Occam’s Razor. Using the probably approximately correct framework, they provide a theorem that they claim demonstrates that we should favor simpler hypotheses. The argument relies on a philosophical interpretation of the theorem. I argue that the standard interpretation of the result in the literature is misguided and that a better reading does not, in fact, support Occam’s Razor at all. To this end, I state and prove a very similar theorem that, if (...)
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