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January 10th 2007 at 7:05 am in William of Occam, the English philosopher known for stating that, if you have multiple theories explaining a phenomenon the simplest solution with the least assumptions has to be the best one. It was only in 1852 that a Sir William Rowan Hamilton first used the term Occam’s Razor to refer to this principle.
The original line in Occam’s work refering to this principle is:
Plurality ought never be posed without necessity.
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