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Question
Occamʹs razor states that __________.A) societies should not be judged by any standards other than their own
B) the most simple explanation is most likely to be true
C) simple answers are usually inadequate
D) older deposits are on the bottom
E) the archaeology of literate societies whose writing we cannot yet read is considered prehistoric
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