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The Principle of Simplicity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Lewis S. Feuer
Lewis S. Feuer*
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University of Vermont
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We are all acquainted with persons who seem to have a talent for making things over-complex, persons who invent exceedingly devious explanations for what can be simply explained. Such individuals strike us as hardened violators of Occam's Razor: Entities are not to be multiplied unnecessarily. We shall say briefly that such persons goropise.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , April 1957 , pp. 109 - 122
Copyright
Copyright © 1957, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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