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'''Occam's razor''' or '''Ockham's razor''' is a principle that can loosely be described as ''the simplest explanation is the one that is probably 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''.

Ockham's Razor is one of the most widely used [[ontological principle]]s in all fields of applied logic, most notably [[philosophy]], [[theology]], 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:

:"From any set of equally probable explanations, we should assume the one which makes the fewest [[fundamental assumptions]] is correct, until we have reason to believe otherwise"

:"From any set of equally probable explanations, we should assume the one which makes the fewest [[fundamental assumptions]] is correct, until we have reason to believe otherwise"