Occam’s razor: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Rondo Keele, Ockham Explained: From Razor to Rebellion (2010), especially chapter 5; Armand A. Maurer, The Philosophy of William of Ockham: In the Light of Its Principles (1999); Paul Vincent Spade, “Ockham’s Nominalist Metaphysics: Some Main Themes,” chapter 5 in Paul Vincent Spade (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Ockham (1999), pp. 100–117.
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Article History
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| Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Razor sharp: The role of Occam's razor in science. | Sep 26, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Notre Dame - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews - Ockham's Razors: A User's Manual. | May 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - Ockham's Razor - Some news about Ockham's Razor and introducing Quick Smart. | Jan 06, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - Solomonoff Prediction and Occam's Razor (PDF). | Sep 06, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: PNAS - Is Ockhams razor losing its edge? New perspectives on the principle of model parsimony. | Jul 08, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Mar 20, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Nature - Nature Nanotechnology - Bringing out the Occam�s razor in peer-review. | Feb 03, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: CORE - The Two Blades of Occam�s Razor in Economics: Logical and Heuristic (PDF). | Dec 16, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of Washington - The Role of Occam?s Razor in Knowledge Discovery. | May 27, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania State University - Citeseerx - Occam?s Razor. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Royal Society Publishing - Occam�s razor gets a new edge: the use of symmetries in model selection. | Jan 02, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Association for the Advancement of Science - The origin and popular use of Occam's razor. | Nov 06, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Live Science - What is Occam's razor? | Aug 15, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: University of California - Department of Mathematics - What is Occam's Razor? | Jul 05, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Frontiers - Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience - Structure learning and the Occam's razor principle: a new view of human function acquisition. | Mar 31, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Occam's Razor: The principle of Parsimony. | Dec 01, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Razor sharp: The role of Occam's razor in science. | Aug 24, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Dec 19, 2018 | ||
| Image of William of Ockham added. | Jun 04, 2015 | ||
| New bibliography added. | Feb 17, 2015 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of William of Ockham. | Nov 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of William of Ockham. | Nov 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of William of Ockham. | Nov 20, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Biography of William of Ockham. | Nov 20, 2014 | ||
| Changed title from "Ockham's razor" to "Occam's razor." | Apr 15, 2014 | ||
| Changed "the simplest explanation of an entity" to "the simpler explanation of an entity." |
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| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - People - How Occam's Razor Works. | Dec 22, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Skeptic's Dictionary - Occam's razor. | Jan 17, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: Principia Cybernetica - Occam's Razor. | Jan 16, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: How Stuff Works - Science - How Occam's Razor Works. | Jan 16, 2008 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 08, 1999 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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