Occam's Razor/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Occam's Razor
In the words of William of Ockham himself, Occam's Razor was expressed as:
- entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem (entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity)
or:
- pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate (plurality should not be posited without necessity).
He was not the first to voice this philosophy. For example, Aristotle had expressed a similar philosophical position.