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Wallace,
Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle
attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar
William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any
phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating
those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the
explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed
in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of
succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem",
or "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".
This is often paraphrased as "All other things being equal, the
simplest solution is the best." In other words, when multiple
competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle
recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest
assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense
that Occam's razor is usually understood.
Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it
is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim (rule of thumb) that
advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity, often or especially in
scientific theories.
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Preston
--- In equismetastock@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "murusprimus" <sace@xxx>
wrote:
>
> thanks for posting the address Preston
>
> and on the site:
> William Ockham: "Non sunt multiplicanda entia sine necessiate" : )
> does this mean 'don't fall off the razor' ?
>
> Wallace
>
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