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| − | Occam's Razor is the scientific principle that, all things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the right one.<ref>http://skepdic.com/occam.html</ref> However many scientists have disputed over the definition of "simplest". Some suggest "simplest" means the shortest possible description; other suggest that it means the description with on average shortest word length. | + | Occam's Razor is the scientific principle that, all things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the right one.<ref>http://skepdic.com/occam.html</ref> However many scientists have disputed over the definition of "simplest". Some suggest "simplest" means the shortest possible description(called Kolmogorov complexity); other suggest that it means the description with on average shortest word length. |
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Revision as of 10:53, March 22, 2007
Occam's Razor is the scientific principle that, all things being equal, the simplest answer is usually the right one.[1] However many scientists have disputed over the definition of "simplest". Some suggest "simplest" means the shortest possible description(called Kolmogorov complexity); other suggest that it means the description with on average shortest word length.