Occam's Razor

William of Ockham (also Occam, Hockham, or any of several other spellings, pronounced /ˈɒkəm/) (c. 1288 - c. 1348)

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Occam's Razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem or "Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily", or "Do not multiply entities unnecessarily", or "Entities should not be unnecessarily multiplied". Alternate phrasing for this is Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate ("Plurality must never be posited without necessity") or Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora ("It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer"). William of Ockham (also Occam, Hockham, Occham, Hockem, Octum, and various other spellings) first put forward this precept.

Occam's

William of Ockham

• The philosopher William of Ockham
• Ockham, Surrey, birthplace of William of Ockham

Science

• Occam's Razor (scientific)
• Lo Pan's Razor
• Crabtree's Bludgeon, a foil to Occam's Razor, and may be expressed so: "No set of mutually inconsistent observations can exist for which some human intellect cannot conceive a coherent explanation, however complicated."
• Parsimony, which in the scientific method is an epistemological, metaphysical, or heuristic preference, not an irrefutable principle of logic, and certainly not a scientific result.

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Technology

• The occam programming language
• The variant of occam programming language, Occam-π
• Minimum message length, a formal information theory restatement of Occam's Razor (scientific).
• MML, an abbreviation of Minimum message length
• SMS, a minimal message

Medicine

• Hickam's dictum, a counterargument to the use of Occam's razor in the medical profession.
• Occam's Razor (House) The third episode of the first season of House.

Organisations

• OCCAM: Observatory for Cultural and Audiovisual Communication in the Mediterranean and in the World
• OCCAM: The Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NIH/NCI)

Other

• Ockham Asylum, New England's version of Arkham Asylum.

Razor

Blades

• Occam's Razor (blade)

A Cyclon from the Telemovie "Razor"

Companies

• Norelco
• Razor Entertainment, a trading cards and collectibles company based in Dallas, Texas

In music

• Razor (band), a Canadian thrash metal band formed in 1984
• "Razor", the last song on the album In Your Honor by the Foo Fighters
• The Razors, a Belgian punk rock band formed in 1978
• Razorlight, a light weight version of The Razors

In literature

• "Razor" (short story), a short story by Vladimir Nabokov

People & fictional characters

• Jake "Razor" Clawson, a fictional anthropomorphic feline from the series SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron
• Razor Ramon, a ring name of American professional wrestler Scott Hall
• Razor Suleman, CEO of I Love Rewards Inc.
• Razor (Maniac Mansion), a character from a 1987 Jaleco game, Maniac Mansion
• Daryl "Razor" Reaugh, ice hockey colour commentator

Objects

• Motorola RAZR V3, a mobile phone
• Razor Blade, a 1920s racing car
• Razor clam, a clam shaped like a razor
• Razor (scooter), a compact aluminium kick scooter
• Razor wire, an anti-personnel security obstacle

Other uses

• Battlestar Galactica: Razor, a television film for Battlestar Galactica
• Hanlon's razor, an adage
• Vipul's Razor, a distributed, collaborative, spam detection and filtering network

Razer

Screenshot: Simplicity PHP framework, as you can tell an extremely complex application

• Razer: most often a stylized misspelling of the word razor.
• Razer, a former Canadian digital television specialty service now known as MTV2.
• Razer USA Ltd, an American computer peripheral manufacturer that specialises in gaming mice
• Razer (Robot), a contestant on the TV show Robot Wars
• Helen Razer, an Australian radio presenter and writer

Philosophy

• Occam's Razor (philosophy)

Simplicity

• Simplicity is simply the act of being simple
• Simplicity is the property, condition, or quality of being simple or un-combined.

Businesses

• Simplicity Outdoor, a tractor manufacturer
• Simplicity Pattern, a sewing pattern company

Computers and software

• Simplicity PHP framework, an advanced, scalable and extensible PHP application framework

Music

Screenshot: SiMPLE, a basic programming language

• Simplicity, a 1981 album by Tim Curry
• Simplicity, a 2001 album by Cosma

Photography

• Simplicity (photography), a photographic technique

Ships

• USS Simplicity (SP-96), a United States Navy patrol boat in commission from 1917 to 1918

Simple

In technology:

• SIMPLE, a presence and instant messaging protocol suite
• SiMPLE, a programming language
• SIMPLE algorithm, a numerical method for Computational fluid dynamics

In other uses:

Sample. Not to be confused with simple.

• Simple (abstract algebra), an algebraic structure which in some sense cannot be divided by a smaller structure of the same type
• Simple living or voluntary simplicity, an alternative lifestyle to consumerism
• Simple Shoes, an American shoe brand, a division of Deckers Outdoor Corporation
• Simples, a philosophical concept of objects without parts
• Simple, a medicinal herb or a medicine made from one; see Herbalism
• Simple (Andy Yorke album), an album by English singer-songwriter Andy Yorke
• Fee simple, a form of land ownership

Peter Simple

• Peter Simple, pseudonym of and newspaper column by the British journalist Michael Wharton
• Peter Simple (novel), 1834 seafaring novel by Marryat
• Peter Simple (racehorse)

See also

• Sample
• Simplicity
• Simplicity Hill (85°6′S 174°38′W / 85.1°S 174.633°W / -85.1; -174.633) is a small ice-free hill rising 1 mile (1.6 km) west of Crilly Hill, at the north side of McGregor Glacier, in the Queen Maud Mountains.
• Simply

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