In the thread "Taking 15 month old on Alaska cruise"
For those of you who might have wondered just who or what Occam's
Razor might be:
Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed
to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of
Ockham.
Occam's razor states that the explanation of any phenomenon should
make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no
difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis
or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as:
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem,
which translates to:
entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.
Furthermore, when multiple competing theories have equal predictive
powers, the principle recommends selecting those that introduce the
fewest assumptions and postulate the fewest hypothetical entities. It
is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood.
Cheers,
John in LALALand |