Definition of Law of parsimony

1. Noun. The principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Law Of Parsimony

law of equal areas
law of equivalent proportions
law of excitation
law of excluded middle
law of gravitation
law of initial value
law of intestine
law of isochronism
law of large numbers
law of motion
law of multiple proportions
law of nations
law of nature
law of parsimony (current term)
law of partial pressures
law of polar excitation
law of priority
law of proximity
law of recapitulation
law of reciprocal proportions
law of referred pain
law of refraction
law of regression to mean
law of segregation
law of similarity
law of similars
law of sines
law of specific nerve energies

Literary usage of Law of parsimony

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Philosophy and Civilization in the Middle Ages by Maurice Wulf (1922)
"Need of universality; the "law of parsimony." ii. Excess resulting from the felt need of simplifying without limit; the geocentric system and the ..."

2. Popular Science Monthly (1902)
"Parasitism, indeed, throughout the organic world is only an application of the law of parsimony. Pauperism produced in the manner described is social ..."

3. The Divine Pedigree of Man, Or, The Testimony of Evolution and Psychology to by Thomson Jay Hudson (1899)
"The Mind of each Sentient Creature a Part of the Divine Mind.— Logical Rules of Investigation. — The Law of Parsimony. ..."

4. A Text-book of Sociology by James Quayle Dealey, Lester Frank Ward (1905)
"The law of parsimony : 37. Shown in the pursuit of interests. 29. IT is the function of methodology in social science to classify social phenomena in such a ..."

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