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simplification|sɪmplɪfɪˈkeɪʃən|
[a. F. simplification, f. simplifier to simplify.]
1. The action or process of simplifying or rendering less complex or elaborate; the result of this.
1688Norris Love i. iv. 39 Men eminently good who..have attained to the highest degree of Mortification and Simplification of Desire.
1802James Milit. Dict. s.v., The simplification of army accounts is perhaps one of the most desirable objects in finance. 1834H. Martineau Moral ii. 60 Nothing being wanted to its efficacy but the simplification which time and practice were sure to bring. 1884Law Times LXXVII. 43/1 Military law..appears to us to be more complicated than it need be in these days of simplification of the statutes.
2. Logic. One of the principles of inference used esp. in the calculus of propositions (see quot. 1903).
1903B. Russell Princ. Math. ii. 16 We can now state the six main principles of inference, to each of which..a name is to be given... If p implies p and q implies q, then pq implies p. This is called simplification, and asserts merely that the joint assertion of two propositions implies the assertion of the first of the two. 1934Cohen & Nagel Introd. Logic & Scientific Method vi. 124 In order to get the calculus [of classes] started, we must state a number of fundamental principles... The following..are those which are usually assumed..Principle of simplification, [etc.]. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic iii. 43 Simplification (Simp.): p.q{ergo}p. 1969F. I. Dretske Seeing & Knowing ii. 57 The logical equivalence which goes under the name of simplification (P is logically equivalent to P and P). |