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Hitchens's razor
General rule rejecting claims made without evidence
Hitchens's razor is an epistemologicalrazor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims.
It states:
- "What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence".[1][2][3][a]
The razor was created by and later named after author and journalist Christopher Hitchens.
It implies that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is not met, then the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it.
Hitchens used this phrase specifically in the context of refuting religious belief.[3]: 258
Analysis
The dictum appears in Hitchens's 2007 book God Is Not Great: How religion poisons everything.[3]: 150, 258 The term "Hitchens's razor" itself first appeared (as "