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In article <1992Nov8.154955.15938@prim> dave@prim.demon.co.uk 
(Dave Griffiths) writes:
>Occams razor
>might suggest that there are _no_ continuums out there. We can get by OK
>without 'em.

I don't think continua are inherently more complex, in such a way as
to allow Occam's razor to be invoked. If you conclude that something
is best regarded as discrete, you ought to have some reason for your
choice of the smallest length, as well as the structure of the lattice
(if it is a discrete model of space, say). I don't see any good
evidence for space as being any particular sort of lattice- for
example- and until such appears, I think we should regard continuous
models of space as preferable, for being less arbitrary, for
omitting these irrelevant parameters which are needed only to
discretize the model.

Keith Ramsay