- 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...
- 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;...
- and clergy, psychologists, and
scientific skeptics who
offered more
parsimonious explanations. The Smurls'
version of
their story was the
subject of a...
-
historian W.R.W. Stephens, "affords some
illustrations of the
avaricious and
parsimonious character of the king". It
seems that
Henry was
skilful at extracting...
-
decomposes movements from one
chord to
another into one or
several "
parsimonious movements"
between pitch classes instead of
actual pitches (i.e., neglecting...
-
Parsimony Press, a fine
press brand ran by
typographer Robert Norton Parsimonious reduction, a type of
reduction in
complexity theory Frugality Philosophical...
- to use
informative priors to
shrink the
unrestricted model towards a
parsimonious naïve benchmark,
thereby reducing parameter uncertainty and improving...
