| − | 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. | + | Occam's Razor is the philosophical principle that, all things being equal, the answer with the fewest assumptions is usually the right one (often refered to as the "simplist" solution).<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. |