Origins
Occam's razor (also Ockham's razor; Latin: lex parsimoniae "law of
parsimony") is a problem-solving principle that, when presented with competing hypothetical answers to a
problem, one should select the one that makes the fewest assumptions. The idea is attributed to William of
Ockham (c. 1287–1347), who was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, and theologian.
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