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Parsimony is a 'less is better' economy or caution in arriving at a hypothesis or course of action. The word derives from Middle English parcimony , from Latin parsimonia , from parsus , past p...
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Occam's razor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Occam's razor (or Ockham's razor ), entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (Latin, roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity"), is the principle that can ...
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Principle of parsimony in philosophy. ... Principle that one should not multiply entities unnecessarily, or make further assumptions than are needed, and in general that one should pursue the simplest hypothesis.
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The principle of parsimony is sometimes called Ockham's Razor, named after a medieval philosopher who advanced the theory with such phrases as "plurality is not to be posited without necessity" and "what ... Parsimony is a relative characteristic; parsimony can only be used to describe one theory in comparison to another.
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One poem I use to illustrate the principle of parsimony in class is William Stafford's "Traveling through the Dark." ... I start off by asking my students to describe exactly what the physical events of the poem's story are.
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Today, we think of the principle of parsimony as a heuristic device. We don't assume that the simpler theory is correct and the more complex one false. We know from experience that more often than not the theory that requires more complicated machinations is wrong.
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Ockham's razor also Occam's razor n. A rule in science and philosophy stating that entities should not be multiplied needlessly ... Methodological principle of parsimony in scientific explanation. Traditionally attributed to William of Ockham, the principle prescribes that entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
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The slavish misapplication of the principle of parsimony will condemn our systems designer to step through each successively higher complexity model until they finally reach one with the required fidelity ... (Which may just be a restatement of your original point.) A good example, which you describe in another entry,
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4) Specify, and briefly describe, the two entirely distinct approaches to the task of biological classification, making clear the ... 8) Describe the principle of parsimony, explaining its role in choosing among alternative organismal phylogenies, and what it suggests about the nature of the evolutionary process?
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