单词 | law of parsimony |
释义 | law of parsimony (once / 407563 pages) n WORD FAMILY law of parsimony USAGE EXAMPLESNo higher form of being than this can be needed, and so by the law of parsimony a hypothesis of any other must be excluded. Jones, Jesse H., Know the Truth; A critique of the H...(2011) But when appeal is here made to this logical principle—the so-called Law of Parsimony—two things are forgotten. Romanes, George John, Darwin, and After Darwin, Volume 2...(2011) There is a law of parsimony for the construction of historical documents; simplicity is the first duty of narration; and hanged they were. Stevenson, Robert Louis, The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson...(2010) n the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred Syn|Hyper Occam's Razor, Ockham's Razor, principle of parsimony principle, rule a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system |
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