the existence is a categorical concept according to kant’s philosophy. kant, going to be a subjectivist philosopher, negates the existence as a perfection and concludes the separation between the mind and extra-mental world. but the externality is not an origin which we deny it easily, even if it is faced with multiple problems such as the issue of simplicity and multiplicity and also being his...

In settings such as investing for retirement or choosing a drug plan, individuals face a staggering number of options. In this paper, we analyze how an abundance of options influences which alternative is selected. We present both laboratory experiments and field data that confirm our theoretical prediction: larger choice sets induce a stronger preference for simple, easy-to-understand options....

In certain statistical learning problems, a policy of choosing simpler rules that account fairly well for data is likely to have less error on new cases than a policy of choosing complex rules that have less error on the data. The relevant kind of simplicity is not to be measured in terms of the number of parameters needed to specify a given member of a class of rules but might be measured in t...