Occam's razor

name

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.

Definitions

  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

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA