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Definition of Occam's razor in English: Occam's razor(also Ockham's razor) noun ˈɒkəmzˌɑkəmz ˈreɪzər The principle (attributed to William of Occam) that in explaining a thing no more assumptions should be made than are necessary. The principle is often invoked to defend reductionism or nominalism. Compare with "principle of parsimony" Example sentencesExamples - I don't believe there is a political Occam's razor.
- Many strange things are possible if you accept the plenitude principle and reject Occam's razor.
- He named it for the principle of Occam's razor, as though to demonstrate that out of many possibilities, the simplest is often the best.
- If you so much as allude to angels, they'll smoke you out before anyone can say Ockham's razor!
- Yet on this point it seems useful to apply Ockham's razor.
- I have two problems with Occam's razor, or at least the way people think they are using it.
- The next logical step would be to use Occam's razor and abandon the concept of custom.
- By Occam's razor, we should avoid elaboration of more complex explanations if a simple one will do.
- This approach seems to apply Occam's razor to the principle itself, eliminating the word ‘assumptions.’
- Applying Ockham's razor in these cases would complicate and balkanize, rather than simplify.
- Veblen's argument was so simple that it cut like Occam's razor.
- The Faithfulness Condition is thus a formal version of Ockham's razor.
- All the complicated middle elements in Montaigne's descriptions are eliminated through a kind of brutal Occam's razor.
- Applying Occam's razor, both the idea of reincarnation and the idea of an immortal soul which will go to heaven or hell are equally unnecessary.
- By Occam's razor, all other more complicated mechanisms should be disregarded, even if they have a similar quality of fit.
- In the first, Shelley argues that a supernatural creator is an unnecessary hypothesis, a violation of Occam's razor.
- This could be interpreted, using Occam's razor, that a three-state model is not necessary.
- That was Occam's razor, a fundamental principle of scientific reasoning.
- Those of a logical bent might use Occam's razor to reject biorhythms in favor of this simpler explanation.
- This second theory, concerning Ader's relation to his own practice, fails the test of Occam's razor and of common sense.
Origin Mid 19th century: from the name of William of Occam + razor, with reference to the ‘cutting away’ of unnecessary material. Definition of Occam's razor in US English: Occam's razor(also Ockham's razor) nounˌɑkəmz ˈreɪzərˌäkəmz ˈrāzər The principle (attributed to William of Occam) that in explaining a thing no more assumptions should be made than are necessary. The principle is often invoked to defend reductionism or nominalism. Compare with "principle of parsimony" at parsimony Example sentencesExamples - By Occam's razor, all other more complicated mechanisms should be disregarded, even if they have a similar quality of fit.
- The Faithfulness Condition is thus a formal version of Ockham's razor.
- Many strange things are possible if you accept the plenitude principle and reject Occam's razor.
- Applying Ockham's razor in these cases would complicate and balkanize, rather than simplify.
- I have two problems with Occam's razor, or at least the way people think they are using it.
- He named it for the principle of Occam's razor, as though to demonstrate that out of many possibilities, the simplest is often the best.
- That was Occam's razor, a fundamental principle of scientific reasoning.
- Those of a logical bent might use Occam's razor to reject biorhythms in favor of this simpler explanation.
- Yet on this point it seems useful to apply Ockham's razor.
- In the first, Shelley argues that a supernatural creator is an unnecessary hypothesis, a violation of Occam's razor.
- The next logical step would be to use Occam's razor and abandon the concept of custom.
- Applying Occam's razor, both the idea of reincarnation and the idea of an immortal soul which will go to heaven or hell are equally unnecessary.
- This second theory, concerning Ader's relation to his own practice, fails the test of Occam's razor and of common sense.
- Veblen's argument was so simple that it cut like Occam's razor.
- This could be interpreted, using Occam's razor, that a three-state model is not necessary.
- All the complicated middle elements in Montaigne's descriptions are eliminated through a kind of brutal Occam's razor.
- If you so much as allude to angels, they'll smoke you out before anyone can say Ockham's razor!
- I don't believe there is a political Occam's razor.
- This approach seems to apply Occam's razor to the principle itself, eliminating the word ‘assumptions.’
- By Occam's razor, we should avoid elaboration of more complex explanations if a simple one will do.
Origin Mid 19th century: from the name of William of Occam + razor, with reference to the ‘cutting away’ of unnecessary material. |