If you need to say you’re all about the patient, you aren’t

Sir William of Ockham has achieved a degree of mortality via the wide promulgation of an aphorism, now generally known at Occam’s Razor (I’ll use the more economical spelling). There are many iterations of the razor, but my favorite is this: “simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.” That trips off the tongue more easily than, say, “plurality should not be posited without necessity.”

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