Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.
Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
If a thing can be done adequately by means of one, it is superfluous to do it by means of several; for we observe that nature does not employ two instruments [if] one suffices.
People don't want to know the truth.
Nature operates in the shortest way possible.
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that something called Occam's razor is true. And Occam's razor is not a razor that men shave with but a Law, and it says: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. Which is Latin and it means: No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary. Which means that a murder victim is usually killed by someone known to them and fairies are made out of paper and you can't talk to someone who is dead.
So Occam's razor - Occam says you should choose the explanation that is most simple and straightforward - leads me more to believe in God than in the multiverse, which seems quite a stretch of the imagination.
Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony; this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.
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