Occam’s Razor

Occam's razor, (aka Ockham's razor) and sometimes expressed in Latin as lex parsimoniae (the law of parsimony, economy or succinctness), is a principle that generally recommends that, from among competing hypotheses, selecting the one that makes the fewest new assumptions generally provides the correct one, and that the simplest explanation will be the most plausible until evidence is presented to prove it false.