“Occam’s razor (also spelled Ockham’s razor) is a principle attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham. The principle states that the explanation of any phenomenon should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating, or ‘shaving off,’ those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory hypothesis or theory. When given two equally valid explanations for a phenomenon, one should embrace the less complicated formulation… This is often paraphrased as ‘All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.’” MORE âž²