| 21267 | Supposing many principles is superfluous if a few will do it [Aquinas] |
| 16676 | Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham] |
| 6806 | Do not multiply entities beyond necessity [William of Ockham] |
| 19342 | Reason avoids multiplying hypotheses or principles [Leibniz] |
| 4541 | Everything simple is merely imaginary [Nietzsche] |
| 22644 | Our greatest pleasure is the economy of reducing chaotic facts to one single fact [James] |
| 6106 | Reducing entities and premisses makes error less likely [Russell] |
| 2939 | If a sign is useless it is meaningless; that is the point of Ockham's maxim [Wittgenstein] |
| 22431 | Good algorithms and theories need many occurrences of just a few elements [Quine] |
| 8207 | The quest for simplicity drove scientists to posit new entities, such as molecules in gases [Quine] |
| 8208 | In arithmetic, ratios, negatives, irrationals and imaginaries were created in order to generalise [Quine] |
| 4036 | What matters is not how many entities we postulate, but how many kinds of entities [Armstrong, by Mellor/Oliver] |
| 3426 | If one theory is reduced to another, we make fewer independent assumptions about the world [Kim] |
| 21021 | Keep premises as weak as possible, to avoid controversial difficulties [Nussbaum] |
| 15784 | The Razor seems irrelevant for Meinongians, who allow absolutely everything to exist [Lycan] |
| 15787 | Maybe Ockham's Razor is a purely aesthetic principle [Lycan] |
| 10471 | Ockham's Razor has more content if it says believe only in what is causal [Oliver] |
| 7037 | Parsimony does not imply the world is simple, but that our theories should try to be [Heil] |
| 7038 | A theory with few fundamental principles might still posit a lot of entities [Heil] |
| 8964 | Entities can be multiplied either by excessive categories, or excessive entities within a category [Hoffman/Rosenkrantz] |
| 4037 | Ockham's Razor is the principle that we need reasons to believe in entities [Mellor/Oliver] |
| 4217 | It is more extravagant, in general, to revise one's logic than to augment one's ontology [Lowe] |
| 4456 | Epistemological Ockham's Razor demands good reasons, but the ontological version says reality is simple [Moreland] |
| 16244 | If the universe is profligate, the Razor leads us astray [Maudlin] |
| 16255 | The Razor rightly prefers one cause of multiple events to coincidences of causes [Maudlin] |
| 13743 | We should not multiply basic entities, but we can have as many derivative entities as we like [Schaffer,J] |
| 16677 | Anti-Razor: if you can't account for a truth, keep positing things until you can [Pasnau] |