What is "Occams Law"?

Question

The spelling of it may be wrong,folks.

Thank you very much folk`s.Once again i am enlightened.

Answer 1

Simplify

Answer 2

I think you may be referring to "Occam's Razor". It is basically a method for forming hypotheses that says "start with the most obvious answer, and cut away all the messy details." At least that's how I understand it. In other words, of there is a simple answer that explains something, go with it instead of a more complicated one.

Answer 3

Occam's razor (sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"): "entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem", or "entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity".

This is often paraphrased as "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the right one." In other words, when multiple competing theories are equal in other respects, the principle recommends selecting the theory that introduces the fewest assumptions and postulates the fewest entities. It is in this sense that Occam's razor is usually understood.

Originally a tenet of the reductionist philosophy of nominalism, it is more often taken today as a heuristic maxim (rule of thumb) that advises economy, parsimony, or simplicity, often or especially in scientific theories.


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Answer 4

Occam's razor ???

(sometimes spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the lex parsimoniae ("law of parsimony" or "law of succinctness"):

Answer 5

Occam's Razor: "All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the right one."

Answer 6

occam's razor

It is used in deduction, by eleminating all guesswork and assumption you are purely left with the facts and the most likely solution to the question.

Answer 7

you mean Occams razor. it just means whatever is the simplest answer is true.