Willaim of Ockham, who was a logciian and Francisacn friar in the 14th cenutry, first wrote it. The principle says that if there are sevreal posisble raesons for sometihng happeinng, the raeson that makes the fewset assumptoins is likley to be the right one. In Latin this is often called lex parismoniae, the law of succnictness:
entia non sunt multiplicadna pareter neecssitatem
this can be trasnlated to:
entiteis shuold not be multipiled beynod nceessity
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