| He named it for the principle of Occam's razor, as though to demonstrate that out of many possibilities, the simplest is often the best. |
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| I have two problems with Occam's razor, or at least the way people think they are using it. |
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| The next logical step would be to use Occam's razor and abandon the concept of custom. |
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| By Occam's razor, we should avoid elaboration of more complex explanations if a simple one will do. |
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| This could be interpreted, using Occam's razor, that a three-state model is not necessary. |
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| All the complicated middle elements in Montaigne's descriptions are eliminated through a kind of brutal Occam's razor. |
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| Those of a logical bent might use Occam's razor to reject biorhythms in favor of this simpler explanation. |
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| By Occam's razor, all other more complicated mechanisms should be disregarded, even if they have a similar quality of fit. |
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| This second theory, concerning Ader's relation to his own practice, fails the test of Occam's razor and of common sense. |
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| In the first, Shelley argues that a supernatural creator is an unnecessary hypothesis, a violation of Occam's razor. |
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| Many strange things are possible if you accept the plenitude principle and reject Occam's razor. |
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| If it is agreed that one of the greatest attributes of science is testability through prediction, the application of Occam's razor often makes such testing possible. |
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| That was Occam's razor, a fundamental principle of scientific reasoning. |
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| Veblen's argument was so simple that it cut like Occam's razor. |
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| Theistic evolution at best includes God as an unnecessary rider in an otherwise purely naturalistic account of life. As such, theistic evolution violates Occam's razor. |
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| Well versed in the literature on Bollywood, Nayar applies a kind of cinema scholar's Occam's Razor to this genre. |
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| Occam's Razor serves as a rule of thumb for choosing the most desirable amongst a group of equally explanatory hypotheses. |
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| I doubt that lefty Craig Boddington has all his safari rifles rebored for a left-hand twist, so I guess I will go with Occam's razor on this one. |
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| Occam's philosophy is called nominalism or sometimes terminism because it sought the simplest explanations that could account for phenomena. |
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| They'd do well to acquaint themselves with Occam's Razor which says that the theory with the fewest assumptions is usually the correct one. |
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| Many are familiar with the Occam's Razor theory which implies, in a nutshell, that the simplest answer is most often the correct answer. |
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| Why wouldn't Occam's razor be an essential tool in God's toolkit? |
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| When we see a bird that looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, paying attention to Occam's razor, we have to infer that this bird must be a duck. |
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| He is commonly known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, and also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology. |
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