There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham’s razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.
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| — | Charles Sanders Peirce, “On Phenomenology”, The Essential Peirce, vol 2 (via philosophybits) |
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