Occam's razor
Example Sentences
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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 puzzle here might have been solved by the application of Occam’s razor, had all the variables been known at the time.
From New York Times • Feb. 8, 2024
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
He told me about Occam’s razor, about Ptolemy and the music of the spheres, and how everyone had been all wrong about the sun and the planets for so many centuries.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
