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Occam's razor
philosophical principle used to judge credibility of statements
Details
- Instance of
- philosophical razor, aphorism, epigrammatic law, heuristic argument
- Depicts
- parsimony
- described by source
- Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890), Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- different from
- extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence
- named after
- William of Ockham
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