{"id":19826,"date":"2025-04-25T07:53:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-25T14:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19826"},"modified":"2025-04-24T08:17:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T15:17:10","slug":"words-seldom-seen-occams-razor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19826","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Occam\u2019s Razor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Occam\u2019s Razor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noun Phrase: When faced with multiple explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest one is likely the correct one.
Example: \u201cApplying Occam\u2019s Razor to the cause of the, Trump induced, ever changing tariff regime would suggest that rather than it be the cleverly though out strategy of trade experts it is more likely the ad hoc invention of a mind in the early stages of dementia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronunciation: click, then click on the speaker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

First expostulated by William of Ockham in the 14th Century. It is at its best when applied to complicated conspiracy theories.
Photo is a victorian manor house in Kent, UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I know it is a phrase not a word but it is seldom seen and was suggested by Bob K.
Perhaps because of our desire for \u201ccomplification\u201d Occam\u2019s Razor is applied less often than it is needed. \u201cComplification\u201d is a word that I invented and as far as I know it has not yet been in words seldom seen. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Occam\u2019s Razor Noun Phrase: When faced with multiple explanations for a phenomenon, the simplest one is likely the correct one. Example: \u201cApplying Occam\u2019s Razor to the cause of the, Trump induced, ever changing tariff regime would suggest that rather than it be the cleverly though out strategy of trade experts it is more likely the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11,408],"tags":[1453,1452,311,409],"class_list":["post-19826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-complification","tag-occams-razor","tag-politics","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_5099.jpg?fit=1600%2C1071&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-59M","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19827,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19826\/revisions\/19827"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}