Island Living Questions

[MDoug]

Originally Posted by wifi

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

From your link--

Baker then notices that principles, including Occam's razor, are often expressed in a way that is not clear regarding which facet of "simplicity” — parsimony or elegance — is being referred to, and that in a hypothetical formulation the facets of simplicity may work in different directions: a simpler description may refer to a more complex hypothesis, and a more complex description may refer to a simpler hypothesis.[b]