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Occam's Razor comparison table

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Occam's Razor William of Ockham doctrine fourteenth century Entia non sunt multiplicanda ("Entities are not to be multiplied") Any hypothesis should be shorn of all unnecessary assumptions; if two hypotheses fit the observations equally well, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be chosen.

Subject	has author	is a kind of	has formulation date	has name origin	has definition
doctrine		belief
Occam's Razor	William of Ockham	doctrine	fourteenth century	Entia non sunt multiplicanda ("Entities are not to be multiplied")	Any hypothesis should be shorn of all unnecessary assumptions; if two hypotheses fit the observations equally well, the one that makes the fewest assumptions should be chosen.

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