Occam in a sentence

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So they did analyses of the proportional differences in brain regions, but not of overall brain size: Occam’s Butterknife.

The lecture will also cover the philosophical implications of adhering to Occam’s Razor in theoretical physics and the appearance of dark matter in the history of science.

So there is really no need to complicate things by the insertion of CO forcing into this rather sad story – which William of Occam suggested we shouldn’t do unless it was really essential.

Back to the Occam's razor anology.

It’s a testament to scientists’ confusion about Occam’s razor that it has been invoked both to defend and to attack the MWI.

The reality is that Occam’s Razor is the most useful tool in this situation.

There’s no easy equation between simplicity and truth, and Crick’s caution about Occam’s razor just perpetuates misconceptions about its meaning and value.

While Occam’s Razor suggests that Epstein likely died of suicide, the circumstances of his death are ripe for conspiracy fodder.

Occam's Disposable RazorInteresting stuff here.

Occam's Razor states that the simplest answer is also most likely the correct one.

The simplest explanation is generally the correct one, so I’m with Occam here.

A study of the predictive validity of Occam’s razor found 32 published papers that included 97 comparisons of forecasts from simple and complex forecasting methods.

Clinical diagnoses often use Occam's razor principle in diagnosing bites based on what spiders the patient likely encountered and previous similar diagnoses.

Empirical Occam's razor has gained strong empirical support in helping to converge on better theories (see "Applications" section below for some examples).

For a discussion of both uses of Occam's razor in biology, see Sober's article "Let's Razor Ockham's Razor" (1990).

For a specific example of MML as Occam's razor in the problem of decision tree induction, see Dowe and Needham's "Message Length as an Effective Ockham's Razor in Decision Tree Induction".

Francis Crick has commented on potential limitations of Occam's razor in biology.

From Occam's razor, it follows that if a straightforward natural explanation exists, there is no need for the spectacular paranormal explanation: Targ and Puthoff's claims are not justified".

If one accepts the first interpretation, the validity of Occam's razor as a tool would then have to be rejected if the more complex explanations were more often correct than the less complex ones (while the converse would lend support to its use).