Pressure, flow and Occam’s Razor: a matter of “steal”?

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Occam’s Razor, named for the fourteenth-century philosopher William of Occam, is the principle of preferring the simplest explanation of events. The principle states, literally, that entities should not be multiplied without necessity (pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate), in other words, one should not make more assumptions than are needed for an explanation. This is often called the principle of scientific ‘parsimony’. The principle has played a major role in getting rid of fictitious or unnecessary elements from explanations as far back as the Middle Ages. Bertrand Russell and other logicians, for instance, eliminated traditional metaphysical concepts by employing Occam’s Razor, and it may be a useful principle in intensive care today. …