I see this term float around the internet a lot but to this day the Google definitions have done nothing but confuse me further
EDIT: OMG I didn’t expect this post to blow up in just a few hours! Thank you all for making such clear and easy to follow explanations, and thank you for the awards!
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A lot of the explanations here are good. One I like to use is that if you have competing theories about something, the explanation with the *fewest assumption*s is generally going to be *closer to the truth* (“more correct”) than those that use more assumptions.
I actually [drew up this extreme demonstration of it some time ago.](https://i.imgur.com/Q2cu3D3.png)
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