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'''Occam's razor''' or '''Ockham's razor''' is a principle that can loosely be described as ''the explanation that introduces the fewest new assumptions is the one that is most likely to be correct''.
'''Occam's razor''' or '''Ockham's razor''' is a principle that can loosely be described as ''the explanation that introduces the fewest new assumptions is the one that is most likely to be correct''. It is also called a methodological tool reflecting the imperative ''don't invent unnecessary entities to explain something.''<ref name="DeniableDarwin">{{cite book
|author=David Berlinski
|title=The Deniable Darwin
|publisher=Discovery Institute Press (reprinted from ''Commentary'' February 1998 by permission)
|location=Seattle, USA
|year=2009
|pages=319
|chapter=Darwinism versus Intelligent Design: David Berlinski &critics
|isbn=978-0-9790141-2-3
|url=http://www.davidberlinski.org/deniable-darwin/about.php
|quote=[actual quote from] Morton Rosof: ...It is true that science has its own phiposophical or faith-like underpinnings. They consist of methodological tools like Occam's Razor (don't invent unnecessary entities to explain something), falsification (can a hypothesis, in principle, be falsified?), and balance (extraordinary claims need extraordinary evidence). These devices have served science with great success for 300 years.}}</ref>
Ockham's Razor is one of the most widely used [[ontological principle]]s in all fields of applied logic, most notably [[philosophy]], [[theology]], [[science]], and [[systemology]]. It is attributed to [[William of Ockham]], an English Franciscan [[Friar]] who lived in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Briefly, it can be stated as follows:
Ockham's Razor is one of the most widely used [[ontological principle]]s in all fields of applied logic, most notably [[philosophy]], [[theology]], [[science]], and [[systemology]]. It is attributed to [[William of Ockham]], an English Franciscan [[Friar]] who lived in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Briefly, it can be stated as follows:
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[[Category:Ontological Principles]]
[[Category:Methodology of Science]]