Pluralitas non ponenda est sine necessitate.
(Multiplicity is not to be asserted when it is unnecessary.)
-- William of Occam [Occam's Razor]
(Multiplicity is not to be asserted when it is unnecessary.)
-- William of Occam [Occam's Razor]
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- Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.
(Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.)
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"Entities should not be multiplied without necessity." aka
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate." aka
"Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem."
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William of... - The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions
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conspiracy... - Philosophers who make the general claim that a rule simply 'reduces to' its
formulations are using Occam's razor to cut the throat of common sense.
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ars sine scientia nihil est...
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