law of parsimony

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law of parsimony - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  law of parsimony
      n 1: the principle that entities should not be multiplied
           needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be
           preferred [syn: Occam's Razor, Ockham's Razor,
           principle of parsimony, law of parsimony]