entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem Phrase
Meaning:
entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity
Comment
Occam's Razor or Law of Parsimony; that is, that arguments which do not introduce extraneous variables are to be preferred in logical argumentation.
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