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| - Occam's Razor was a logical principle ascribed to 14th century human William of Occam, which stated, "The least complex answer is probably right." (TOS novel: Planet of Judgment; SCE eBook: Foundations, Book One)
- Occam's Razor is a principle in logic which states the following: given several competing explanations for the same phenomenon, one should select the explanation with the least amount of fact.
- Occam's Razor is a 1st season episode of House which first aired on November 30, 2004. After a spirited sexual intercourse with his fiancee, Brandon collapses, suffering from abdominal pain, nausea, fever and low blood pressure. House and his team cannot pinpoint Brandon's problem since there is no illness with this many symptoms. But then, Brandon complains of pain in his fingers and House suddenly zeroes in on the cause.
- Occam's Razor is a unique combat knife in Fallout 3.
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- Occam's Razor is a fanfiction written and published on AO3 by hollycomb. It was written for the South Park Big Bang 2013.
- Occam's razor tells us a simple explanation with few assumptions is more likely to be true. Something could have happened in several different ways. Then a way with few guesses is more likely to be correct than a way with many guesses. Of course if a complex explanation works better than a simple explanation we take the complex explanation seriously.
- Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor) is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae (translating to the law of parsimony, law of economy or law of succinctness) is a heuristic that states "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity" (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). This may be alternatively phrased as pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate ("plurality should not be posited without necessity"). Occam's Razor is attributed to the 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. When competing hypotheses are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selection of the hypothesis that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities while still sufficiently answering the question. It is in this sense t
- Occam's Razor is a logical principle first described in the 14th century by William of Ockham, an English Franciscan friar and philosopher. It is often used to evaluate the usefulness of a theory. Its main tenet is that "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity." It can be summed up with the phrase "When you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." Example: There have been theories that Ancient Astronauts built the Egyptian Pyramids instead of humans. For this to be true, we'd need the following givens: The more normal theory only requires that
- The application of the principle often shifts the burden of proof in a discussion. The razor states that one should proceed to simpler theories until simplicity can be traded for greater explanatory power. The simplest available theory need not be most accurate. Philosophers point out also that the exact meaning of simplest may be nuanced.
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