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Occam's razor

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The principle of preferring the simplest of competing theories.

    "Bugger, bugger, bugger dumb the last of academe / Occam's razor makes the cutting clean / Shaven like a banker, Lilac Vegeta"

Noun
  1. 1
    the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred wordnet

Etymology

Named after the English Franciscan theologist William of Occam, an advocate of the law of parsimony, and the idea of a razor as a tool that trims or shaves.

See also for "occam's razor"

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