- Williams's
contention is that of the two,
individual selection is the more
parsimonious theory. In
doing so he is
invoking a
variant of Occam's
razor known as...
- In com****tional
complexity theory and game complexity, a
parsimonious reduction is a
transformation from one
problem to
another (a reduction) that preserves...
-
there is no
algorithm to
quickly generate the most-
parsimonious tree. Instead, the most-
parsimonious tree must be
sought in "tree space" (i.e., amongst...
-
generalizabity and interpretability. Thus it is
common to use more
parsimonious component covariance matrices exploiting their geometric interpretation...
- information) or else used
ironically to mean
outright lying. The term
parsimonious with the
truth is also
sometimes used in the same way. The
Oxford Dictionary...
-
argument from nonbelief.
Nonbelievers contend that
atheism is a more
parsimonious position than
theism and that
everyone is born
without beliefs in deities;...
-
decomposes movements from one
chord to
another into one or
several "
parsimonious movements"
between pitch classes instead of
actual pitches (i.e., neglecting...
-
favoring silence over speech". This form of
communication is
parsimonious.
Parsimonious behavior,
which is
highly emphasized in The Art of War as avoiding...
- Cross-species
transmission (CST), also
called interspecies transmission, host jump, or spillover, is the
transmission of an
infectious pathogen, such as...
- lines. The
contact edges are the red lines. Here
there are three, the most
parsimonious number required to
generate a
feasible network for Indo-European....
