As reported in "Epistemology" by Kenneth Feder, Occam's Razor asserts that the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions is probably the best explanation. Among the following of Feder's examples, pick a correct statement he used to illustrate Occam's razor.
a. Suspended objects in his colleague's classroom were moving by psychokinesis.
b. Huge bones discovered in Europe and North America during the 17th and 18th centuries were once par animals that no longer exist, not put there by the Devil.
c. In Loomis II stones from nearby sources are more numerous than stones from far away as was also the case in building experiments done by students in Feder's archaeology class 2000 years later.
d. Both Sherlock Holmes' and Semmelweis' process of discovery shows that all factors must be tested.
c. In Loomis II stones from nearby sources are more numerous than stones from far away as was also the case in building experiments done by students in Feder's archaeology class 2000 years later.
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