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Occam's Razor   Listen
Occam's Razor

noun
1.
The principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred.  Synonyms: law of parsimony, Ockham's Razor, principle of parsimony.





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"Occam's razor" Quotes from Famous Books



... fear for our Anglo-Saxon race. Its moral, aesthetic, and practical wants form too dense a stubble to be mown by any scientific Occam's razor that has yet been forged. The knights of the razor will never form among us more than a sect; but when I see their fraternity increasing in numbers, and, what is worse, when I see their negations acquiring ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James


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