O principio e frequentemente designado pela expressao latina lex parsimoniae lei da parcimonia, enunciada como. After william of occam, an advocate of the law of parsimony, and the idea of a razor as a tool that trims or shaves. Quintessence, cosmic coincidence, and the cosmological constant. Outras cidades vizinhas incluem ripley, wisley e effingham. Summula philosophiae naturalis summary of natural philosophy william ockham.
Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. He studied at oxford in all probability as a member of the franciscan house there, and not as has commonly been asserted as a fellow of merton college. Occams razor in knowledge discovery 3 put another way, the results in blumer et al. Occam s razor epistemology the principle of preferring the simplest of competing theories. William of ockham stanford encyclopedia of philosophy. Translators preface ockham s summula is his neglected masterpiece. D71 dark energy transition between quintessence and phantom regimes. Ontological simplicity, or parsimony, measures the number of kinds of entities postulated by the. Syntactic simplicity, or elegance, measures the number and conciseness of the theorys basic principles. Occams razor also written as ockham s razor, and lex parsimoniae in latin, which means law of parsimony is a problemsolving principle attributed to william of ockham c. He is probably best known today for his espousal of metaphysical nominalism. Occams razor has met some opposition from people who have considered it too extreme or rash. Ockham s razor theatre company, an aerial theatre company disambiguation page providing links to topics that could be referred to by the same search term this disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title ockham.
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