principle of parsimony(n = noun.cognition) law of parsimony, occam's razor, ockham's razor - the principle that entities should not be multiplied needlessly; the simplest of two competing theories is to be preferred;
is a kind of principle, rule

accounting principle, archimedes' principle, basic principle, bitter principle, exclusion principle, first principle, fundamental principle, gestalt principle of organization, guiding principle, huygens' principle of superposition, in principle, indeterminacy principle, judicial principle, law of parsimony, le chatelier principle, le chatelier's principle, le chatelier-braun principle, legal principle, life principle, localisation principle, localization principle, mass-action principle, moral principle, parsimony, pauli exclusion principle, pleasure principle, pleasure-pain principle, pleasure-unpleasure principle, principle, principle of equivalence, principle of liquid displacement, principle of relativity, principle of superposition, reality principle, superposition principle, uncertainty principle, vital principle, working principle