- Look up
parsimony in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Parsimony may
refer to: The law of
parsimony, or Occam's razor, a problem-solving
principle Maximum...
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possible set of elements. It is also
known as the
principle of
parsimony or the law of
parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae).
Attributed to
William of Ockham...
- In
phylogenetics and com****tional phylogenetics,
maximum parsimony is an
optimality criterion under which the
phylogenetic tree that
minimizes the total...
- debate. Grice's
razor (also
known as Guillaume's razor): As a
principle of
parsimony,
conversational implicatures are to be
preferred over
semantic context...
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Judicial restraint is a
judicial interpretation that
recommends favoring the
status quo in
judicial activities and is the
opposite of
judicial activism...
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After retiring from
Microsoft in 1997, he ran his fine
press brand, the
Parsimony Press, in Huntspill, Somerset. Barker, Nicolas. "Robert
Norton (obituary)"...
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these trees in a
fashion referred to as
maximum parsimony. When
talking about phylogenetics,
maximum parsimony refers to a
method of
inferring a phylogenetic...
- Morgan's Canon, Morgan's
Canon of
Interpretation or the
principle or law of
parsimony, is a
fundamental precept of
comparative (animal) psychology,
coined by...
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order of discovery,
these are
maximum parsimony,
maximum likelihood, and
Bayesian Inference.
Maximum parsimony considers all
evolutionary events equally...
- Pauling's
rules are five
rules published by
Linus Pauling in 1929 for
predicting and
rationalizing the
crystal structures of
ionic compounds. For typical...
