Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun ockham's_razor

1 sense of ockham's razor

Sense 1
Occam's Razor, Ockham's Razor, principle of parsimony, law of parsimony -- (the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred)
       => principle, rule -- (a rule or law concerning a natural phenomenon or the function of a complex system; "the principle of the conservation of mass"; "the principle of jet propulsion"; "the right-hand rule for inductive fields")