Occam's razor

Occam's razor is the rule that, when explaining a set of phenomena, one should not add explanatory elements unnecessarily. In other words, simple explanations should be preferred above complex ones.

The Occam Method

Submitted by jhwierenga on Mon, 07/30/2018 - 07:30
cycle 1. Identify phenomena 2. Itemize explanations 3. Score explanations

Scoring

QO is founded on a heuristic, the Occam method, which is based on Occam’s razor: the contention that, given a set of otherwise equivalent explanations, the explanation requiring the fewest apparently arbitrarily contrived elements is to be preferred. It is a method for deriving and evaluating an explanation tree. In QO, we apply the Occam method to determine in which sequence in which hypotheses about the universe should be examined.

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