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Hanlon's razor is an aphorism that recommends a way of eliminating unlikely explanations for a phenomenon (a philosophical razor). As an eponymous law, it may have been named after Robert J. Hanlon. There are also earlier sayings that convey the same idea dating back at least as far as Goethe in 1774. == Origins and etymology == Inspired by Occam's razor,〔Giancarlo Livraghi, ''Il potere della stupidità'', Monti & Ambrosini, Pescara, Italy, 2004, p. 1〕 the aphorism was popularized in this form and under this name by the ''Jargon File'', a glossary of computer programmer slang. In 1990, it appeared in the Jargon File described as a "'murphyism' parallel to Occam's Razor". Later that same year, the ''Jargon File'' editors noted lack of knowledge about the term's derivation and the existence of a similar epigram by William James. In 1996, the ''Jargon File'' entry on Hanlon's Razor noted the existence of a similar quotation in Robert A. Heinlein's short story "Logic of Empire" (1941), with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of "Heinlein's Razor".〔 (Heinlein termed it "the devil" theory of sociology, and wrote, "You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity".)〔Wikiquote:Robert J. Hanlon〕 In 2001, Quentin Stafford-Fraser published two blog entries citing e-mails from one Joseph E. Bigler about how the quotation originally came from Robert J. Hanlon of Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a submission for a book compilation of various jokes related to Murphy's law published in Arthur Bloch's ''Murphy's Law Book Two: More Reasons Why Things Go Wrong!'' (1980). Subsequently, in 2002, the ''Jargon File'' entry noted the same, though not definitively. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hanlon's razor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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