Denigma
hevok @hevok February 23, 2013
Concept #philosophy #theories

Occam's Razor

Take the simplest hypothesis and this should be the right one, because it it most likely that it is true. Entities should not be multiplied without necessity.

  • "Principle of Simplicity"

  • Among competing hypothesis, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be selected

  • A theory is simple, if

  • it contains as few variables and hypothesis as possible

  • that relate clearly logical with each other and

  • the Subject to be explained can be logical deduced (from these assumptions and hypotheses)