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15 May 2006 01:14 am
Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham (ca. 1285-1349).
The principle is often expressed in Latin as:
entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem,which translates to:
entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.An alternative way of stating this principle is:
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitatewhich translates to:
plurality should not be posited without necessity -
I think this quote is quite appropriate to be placed here…
"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
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Simply put, Occam’s Razor suggests that when analyzing a problem, all unnecessary details should be discarded so everyone can focus on the core of the problem. Also, options that lack simplicity should be discarded. This suggests that the simpler solution might be the better one (and yes, this method has it’s limits).
Reading on the topic, I discovered that this method is commonly used as a part of the scientific method and that Avinash Kaushik likes the concept too.
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