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Simplicity
Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (1975)
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Attempts to show that the simplicity of a hypothesis can be measured by attending to how well it answers certain kinds of questions.Author's Profile
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How to Tell When Simpler, More Unified, or Less A d Hoc Theories Will Provide More Accurate Predictions.Malcolm R. Forster & Elliott Sober - 1994 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 45 (1):1-35.
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