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2000 Sep 28
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Occams Razor Was: lm -- significance of x ...
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> Date: 28 Sep 2000 13:58:22 +0200
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> Peter Dalgaard BSA <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:
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> > I think Occam/Ockham himself wrote in Latin. By my failing memory, the
> > quote is
> >
> > "Entia non runt multiplicanda praeter necessitam"
> >
> > give or take a couple of incorrect inflexions. I.e. "Entities should
> > not multiply unless necessary" -- do not invent more elaborate
> > explanations than what is necessary to explain the facts.
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> A little web search gave the following at...