Occam's razor
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While Endres acknowledges the idea as logically possible, he notes that it runs counter to Occam's razor, the principle that favors simpler explanations.
From Science Daily • Oct. 26, 2025
Asked what he would have done different four years ago, Baffert offered an Occam’s razor kind of answer.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2025
The principle of Occam's razor, which holds that the simplest explanation for any phenomenon is most likely the right one, applies here.
From Salon • Sep. 25, 2022
The huge “Occam” collection has brought a new philosophy to the fore in her work, derived from Occam’s razor, which declares that “entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.”
From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2022
And Occam’s razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
From "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
