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• Ockham's razor

Named after British 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.

Occam's razor

1. (epistemology) The principle of preferring the simplest of competing theories.

• law of parsimony
• principle of parsimony

• Occam's broom
• Hanlon's razor
• Hitchens' razor
• Newton's flaming laser sword
• when you hear hoofbeats, think of horses, not zebras