Occam's razor
nameEtymology
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.
Definitions
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
The neighborhood
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA