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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

6106	Reducing entities and premisses makes error less likely [Russell]
	Full Idea: You diminish the risk of error with every diminution of entities and premisses.
	From: Bertrand Russell (The Philosophy of Logical Atomism [1918], §VIII)
	A reaction: If there are actually lots of entities, you would increase error if you reduced them too much. Ockham's Razor seems more to do with the limited capacity of the human mind than with the simplicity or complexity of reality. See Idea 4456.