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William of Ockham

It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer.

This statement, and others like it in William of Ockham’s work, has led philosophers to express the idea with precision as “Ockham’s razor” — specifically, in the phrase, nowhere found in Ockham, of “Don’t multiply [explanatory] entities beyond necessity.”

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