The Principle of Simplicity

1 April 1957

journal article
Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Philosophy of Science

Vol. 24 (2) , 109-122
https://doi.org/10.1086/287526

Abstract

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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