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Occam's Razor

the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred; attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham; a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism; taken today as a heuristic maxim that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity in scientific theories.

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  • Occam's Razor, Ockham's razor, Ockam's Razor, Occom's Razor, Ockham’s Razor, Okkams razor, Okhams razor, Ackham's Razor, Occum's razor, Occham's Razor, Ocam's razor, principle of parsimony, law of parsimony, principle of economy, principle of simplicity


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