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- noun The
principle thatentities should not beneedlessly multiplied . - noun sciences The principle of preferring the
simpler of two competingtheories .
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- noun the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred
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After William of Occam, an advocate of the law of parsimony, and the idea of a razor as a tool that trims or shaves. See citations for coinage.
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