Occam's Razor: The Atomic Mental Model - Sketchy Ideas %
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Occam's Razor: The Atomic Mental Model - Sketchy Ideas %
For hundreds of years, “Occam’s razor” has been a go-to in any critical thinker’s mental toolbox. Also known as the “principle of parsimony,” this heuristic (read: a mental shortcut) is often summarized as: “When you have two competing explanations for the same phenomenon, the simpler one is the better.”
Big Think • 3 Brilliant Critical Thinking Tools Used by Daniel Dennett
Simpler explanations are more likely to be true than complicated ones. This is the essence of Occam’s Razor,
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
