Occam's beard.
Firstly i think Occam's razor is a great idea and the correct approach for understanding most things. However 'everything has its equal and opposite' and 'there are always exceptions to the case'.

e.g. In astrology we have human and other attributes that apply across the board, what composes any given sign also composes the others as they also compose human nature, states of mind and behaviourisms. So how can it be viewed on a factual basis when we are dealing with the same aspects that belong to multiple parties? Now i don't actually believe in conventional astrology, but i do believe that the universe is made up of a myriad of patterns and the various forms of astrology from around the world belong to these universal sequences.

Wisdom; over a period of time one may collect so many 'assumptions' which appear to apply to a given thing [like in astrology numerology etc], that it becomes apparent that there must be something to it. We cannot prove anything because everything we say can also be given other meanings or equally attributed to something else. Assumptions can also be 'what if' scenarios, which are the beginnings of inspection.

Doesn't science 'assume' the physicality of the universe? Yet it is impossible to prove that, we can only say that it appears to be physical even though it also appears that the physical arises from nothingness, indeed the entire universe arises from nothing – an unphysical state or 'statelessness'. We could say that there were other universes before and also parallel to this one, yet infinity can only be 'that which is without limits or boundaries' thence in the end whatever universes are considered, they all must have states which are limited by their very nature and we end up arriving at infinity. I know that infinity itself appears to be questionable, in the mathematics of infinity we can have omega plus 1, which is a contradiction of the basic principle of infinity. This is due to to the fact that we cannot actually have mathematics of infinity, we can only have comparative math of infinity and the finite intertwined.

Q1. So is our entire worldview a construct of assumptions built upon more assumptions i.e. Occam's beard?

Q2. can we say that after a point a vast amount of unprovable 'assumptive facts' can amount to actual fact? Or at least that such wisdoms can be given a little more credit than they currently receive?

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If you want to go deeper then here's an example of what i am trying to say, as taken from a russian website! [with a few additions from me]

Fibonacci sequence
in short the Fibonacci sequence is a set of numbers the pattern of which are reflected in nature and geometry. There are many other patterns, i feel prime numbers come into it in a big way e.g. '7' is the number of the octave and of the visible colour spectrum. I am currently working on a paper for some druid orders which combines all the patterns and sequences into one overall formula, as i truly believe that not only can everything be attributed to one sequence or another and ultimately to the one sequence of sequences, but that there is no such thing as absolute randomness so everything is ultimately ordered as like corn cast across a field of numbered empty boxes.

That is, after two starting values, each number is the sum of the two preceding numbers. The first Fibonacci numbers, also denoted as Fn, for n*=*0,*1, … , are:
0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89, 144, 233, 377, 610, 987, 1597, 2584, 4181, 6765, 10946, 17711.
maatraameru (mountain of cadence).
A pattern of length n can be formed by adding S to a pattern of length n−1, or L to a pattern of length n−2; the number of patterns of length n is the sum of the two previous numbers in the series.
Rabbits that don't die and keep breeding...
Let the population at month n be F(n). At this time, only rabbits who were alive at month n−2 are fertile and produce offspring, so F(n−2) pairs are added to the current population of F(n−1). Thus the total is F(n)*=*F(n−1)*+*F(n−2).
Fibonacci numbers also appear in the description of the reproduction of a population of idealized bees, according to the following rules:
If an egg is laid by a single female, it hatches a male.
If, however, the egg is fertilized by a male, it hatches a female.
Thus, a male bee will always have one parent, and a female bee will have two.
If one traces the ancestry of this male bee (1 bee), he has 1 female parent (1 bee). This female had 2 parents, a male and a female (2 bees). The female had two parents, a male and a female, and the male had one female (3 bees). Those two females each had two parents, and the male had one (5 bees). If one continues this sequence, it gives a perfectly accurate depiction of the Fibonacci sequence.
Is this similar or same as I ching sequence, so basically a two fold evolutionary number?
Golden ratio; 13:7
Sunflower head displaying florets in spirals of 34 and 55 around the outside.
Tribonacci numbers
The tribonacci numbers are like the Fibonacci numbers, but instead of starting with two predetermined terms, the sequence starts with three predetermined terms and each term afterwards is the sum of the preceding three terms. The first few tribonacci numbers are;

0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 7, 13, 24, 44, 81, 149, 274, 504, 927, 1705, 3136, 5768, 10609, 19513, 35890, 66012, 121415, 223317, 410744, 755476, 1389537, 2555757, 4700770, 8646064, 15902591, 29249425, 53798080, 98950096, 181997601, 334745777

Tetranacci numbers
The tetranacci numbers start with four predetermined terms, each term afterwards being the sum of the preceding four terms. The first few tetranacci numbers are;
0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 2, 4, 8, 15, 29, 56, 108, 208, 401, 773, 1490, 2872, 5536, 10671, 20569, 39648, 76424, 147312, 283953, 547337, …
Pentanacci, hexanacci and heptanacci numbers have been computed, with perhaps less interest so far in research.
Interestingly, there is a limit to this with increasing n. A 'polynacci' sequence, if one could be described, would after an infinite number of zeroes yield the sequence [..., 0, 0, 1,] 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, ... which are simply powers of 2.
A random Fibonacci sequence can be defined by tossing a coin for each position n of the sequence and taking F(n)=F(n−1)+F(n−2) if it lands heads and F(n)=F(n−1)−F(n−2) if it lands tails. Work by Furstenburg and Kesten guarantees that this sequence almost surely grows exponentially at a constant rate: the constant is independent of the coin tosses and was computed in 1999 by Divakar Viswanath. It is now known as Viswanath's constant.
NOTE: it seams apparent that such sequences [as described above {all of}] are simply natural coincidental sequences, you begin with perhaps random set of numbers and they will form a pattern or sequence [even if further random attributes are added along the way]. The same applies to beginning with a single value be it say 0, 1, or x, then whatever values are added a sequence will be arrived at. In fact the only way to avoid this is to have random numbers whereby we begin with a given value and continually change the following number to the next so that a sequence cannot be arrived at. However, given that numbers are limited [finite] or even that arbitrary values are limited, then even the most random numbers cannot be said to be 'chaos numbers' thence there will always be some manner of pattern and randomness itself is a kind of pattern.
Hawks approach their prey in a logarithmic spiral: their sharpest view is at an angle to their direction of flight; this angle is the same as the spiral's pitch.
Insects approach a light source in a logarithmic spiral because they are used to having the light source at a constant angle to their flight path. Usually the sun is the only light source and flying that way will result in a practically straight line.
The arms of spiral galaxies are roughly logarithmic spirals. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is believed to have four major spiral arms, each of which is a logarithmic spiral with pitch of about 12 degrees, an unusually small pitch angle for a galaxy such as the Milky Way. In general, arms in spiral galaxies have pitch angles ranging from about 10 to 40 degrees.
Padovan sequence [see image]
1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 9, 12, 16, 21, 28, 37, 49, 65, 86, 114, 151, 200...

In the alive nature the forms based on the "pentagonal" symmetry (marine asters, marine hedgehogs, flowers) are widespread widely. The flowers of water lily, wild rose, hawthorn, small nail, pear, apple, strawberry and many other flowers are five-petal. The flower of the Chinese rose with the brightly expressed "pentagonal" symmetry is shown below
However the marine asters own not only by the "pentagonal" symmetry. In the Pacific ocean there are the marine asters with 8 and 13 rays. The marine aster "sunflower" has 33 rays, and "fiery" aster has 55 rays. Thus, for many marine asters a number of rays corresponds to Fibonacci numbers or close to them numbers.
An availability of five fingers on man's hand or bone's embryos on the organs of a man and many animals are by additional testimony of the pentagonal form and the golden section spreading in morphology of the biological world. And we will develop this idea at the next pages of our Museum. Follow us!
Botanists assert that the fractions describing the plant screw axes form the stringent mathematical sequence consisting of the adjacent Fibonacci numbers ratios, that is:
1/2, 1/3, 2/5, 3/8, 5/13, 8/21, 13/34, ... .
Botanists established that the phyllotaxis fraction from the sequence of (1) are characteristic for different plants. For example, the fraction of 1/2 is peculiar to cereals, birch, grapes; 1/3 to sedge, tulip, alder; 2/5 to pear, currants, plum; 3/8 to cabbage, radish, flax; 5/13 to spruce, jasmine etc.
What is the "physical" cause underlying the "Phyllotaxis Law"? The answer is very simple. It appears that just at such arrangement of leafs on the plant stem the maximum of the solar energy inflow to the plant is reached.
The earth symphony.
Let's begin from the ratio of the dry land and water areas on the Earth surface. It appears, that the area of the oceans is close to 62 %, the remaining surface of the planet is occupied by continents and seas. Whether is it incidentally what the ratio of these two main formations determining the Earth view corresponds to the golden proportion? Apparently, no. For the long-lived period of its evolution (about 4,5 billions of years) the frame of the planet should achieve some optimum condition. And this harmony was expressed that, on the one hand, the Earth was turn into the geo-dodecahedron, and on the other hand, the ratio of the dry land area to the water area on its surface became equal to the golden proportion.
As in man's body the blood executes the carry of matters to all organism, providing metabolism, creation of new structures, removing slag, so the far-flung system of the water arteries makes the carry of the planet materials, feed of plants, clearing the soils. The solar pomp, as heart, drives the water, raising it from the ocean surface to atmosphere, and then irrigates the biosphere surface by the rain. All system of water-supply (from the water percolation through the soil capillary tubes and rock saturation before formation of the small-sized streams and the vast water arteries) - all this resembles the blood circulatory system of the man.
Let's begin from the air compound. If in the Earth air there was percent of the oxygen in 25 %, instead of 21%, as it is now, the scientists believe that the forest could burn under a rain. And if the percent of the oxygen would be only 10%, even the dry timber would not burn. Possibly, that the percent of the oxygen in 21% in the present atmosphere is no random and is the outcome of the biosphere activity, of the total the planet self-organization. And here it is unexpected scientific confirmation of this supposition! The atmospheric compound of the Earth meets the requirements of harmonic organization!
Music of the sphere's
the ratios of the adjacent planets cycle times around of the Sun are equal or the golden proportion 1,618, or its square 2,618. Also Butusov discovered the following regularity:
"The frequencies and the frequencies differences of planet's circulations form the frequency spectrum with the interval, equal to t, i.e. the spectrum constructed on the "golden section"! In other words, the spectrum of gravitational and acoustic disturbances created by the planets represents by itself the consonance chord, the most perfect chord from the acoustic point of view ...
In 1988 the relevant scientific discovery was made in the mechanics field. This discovery certified an existence of the new natural phenomenon, the synchronization of the rotated bodies based on the resonance phenomenon, which results to the fact that the definite phase relations are established between speeds of the rotated bodies.
In other words all the bodies form a kind of synchronicity which mirrors the golden ratio and fibonacci sequence [?].
Q. Who is the conductor of the multi-voice biorhythmic symphony of our organism and of our brain electrical oscillation frequencies, in particular, of the steadiest a-rhythm frequency?
Recently the Russian scientist Slutsky put forward a rather interesting hypothesis to answer to this question. He recognizes that the animal and man organism represent by itself the biorhythmic system, which is developed during a long evolution under influence of the environment, the earth's and cosmic factors. Therefore, it is necessary to search in the environment the source of electromagnetic oscillations with frequencies corresponding to the frequencies of the brain rhythms In Slutsky's opinion, such a source is the geomagnetic field having the oscillation frequency 8-13 hertz, that is, the same as well as the a-rhythm. Also electrostatic atmosphere waves have the same frequency. Thus, we can see consider the brain as a radio receiver, which is self-tuned according to the frequency of the Earth's magnetic field.

We consider now the "inventory" of the human body. It consists of one trunk, one head, one heart etc.; many parts of the body are pair, for example, arms, legs, eyes, buds. Legs, arms, fingers consist of three parts. On the arms and the legs we have five fingers, and the arm together with fingers consists of eight parts. the man has 12 pairs of ribs (one pair was atrophied and is present now as rudimentary organ). Apparently in the past the man had 13 ribs but during evolution in process of passage to upright position a number of ribs decreased.
The constitution of man's hand is characteristic. The hand consists of three main parts: wrists, metacarpus and fingers. 8 bones enter to the wrist structure; the wrist is connected to 5 metacarpal bones, which form the basis of the palm. 5 fingers are connected to metacarpal bones. Each finger consists of three phalanxes: main, mean and nail. Man's backbone consists of 34 vertebras.
We can see that Fibonacci numbers from 1 to 34 are present in partitioning of the human body. Note that the total number of the human body bones is close to 233, that is, responds to Fibonacci number.
But Fibonacci's is characteristic not only for bones. For example, man's brain consists of seven parts: a cortex, calloused corpus, cerebellum, cerebral ventricle, brain, oblong brain, and pituitary gland. In the basis of the brain one may select 8 parts executing miscellaneous functions. In man's body there are 8 different endocrine glands. The intestine and adjacent with it organs (stomach, liver, gall bladder etc.) make in the sum 13 organs. The respiratory man's organs consist of 8 parts. The liver also consists of 8 parts; the buds consist of 5 parts, and the heart consists of 13 parts.

Let's consider how it is possible to express through the golden proportion all indicated critical points in the embryo development. For this purpose we remind that some value can be divided by the "golden section" in two ways, by the golden proportion 1.618 or by the square of the golden proportion 2.618 or even by the cube of the golden proportion 4.236. If the number of 266 (the period of embryonic child development) is divided by the square of the golden proportion, we get the number of 101.6, which corresponds to the critical point in 100 days. If the cube of the golden proportion divides the number of 101.6, we get the number of 24, which corresponds to one more critical point of embryonic development (24 days). At last, the interval 266 - 101.6 = 164.4 divided by the golden proportion gives number 101.6 that corresponds to the third critical point (200 day).