You come home and flip the light switch on. The lights fail to turn on. Rather than assume space aliens have landed and are in your attic with control of your electricity, you check your fuse box first or contact your neighbors to see if there is a power failure for your block. What self-evident truth did you use?

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Gage Washington

26 July, 19:51

You come home and flip the light switch on. The lights fail to turn on. Rather than assume space aliens have landed and are in your attic with control of your electricity, you check your fuse box first or contact your neighbors to see if there is a power failure for your block. What self-evident truth did you use?

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Nicholas Richards · Answer 1

Occam's Razor

Explanation:

The self-evident truth used by the person is Occam's Razor which advises that in the face of more than one explanations, it is better to align with the simplest or easier one. For example it is quite easy in this situation to check the switch box, or contact your neighbors to see if there is power failure for the block than to begin examining the overboard assumption that an alien has taken over the electricity control