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Originally appearing in Volume V20, Page 868 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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LAW OF
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PARSIMONY (
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Lat. parsimonia, from parcere, to
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save)  , the name given to
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William of
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Occam's principle " Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem," i.e. that it is scientifically unsound to set up more than one
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hypothesis at once to explain a phenomenon . This principle is known as " Occam's
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razor " (see OCCAM, WILLIAM OF) .

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