Parsimony
121Ockham's razor — n. OCCAM S RAZOR * * * Methodological principle of parsimony in scientific explanation. Traditionally attributed to William of Ockham, the principle prescribes that entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity. In practice, this means that… …
122Elizabeth I — (Elizabeth Tudor) 1533 1603, queen of England 1558 1603 (successor of Mary I; daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn). * * * born Sept. 7, 1533, Greenwich, near London, Eng. died March 24, 1603, Richmond, Surrey Queen of England (1558–1603).… …
123Creation Science — Creationism can also refer to creation myths, or to a concept about the origin of the soul. For the movement in Spanish literature, see Creacionismo. Part of a series on Creationism …
124Neighbor joining — This genetic distance map made in 2002 is an estimate of 18 world human groups by a neighbour joining method based on 23 kinds of genetic information. It was made by Saitou Naruya (斎藤成也? …
125Order of Battle: Hainan Island Operation — Hainan Island Operation (10 February 1939) [1] Contents 1 Japan 2 China 3 References 4 Sources …
126Overcompleteness — A system in a Banach space X is complete if every element in X can be approximated arbitrarily well in norm by finite linear combinations of elements in .[1] Such a complete system is overcomplete if removal of a ϕj from the system results in a… …
127Analyse à trois éléments — L analyse à trois éléments ou analyse à trois taxons est une méthode cladistique de reconstruction phylogénétique. Elle fut introduite par les systématiciens G. J. Nelson et N. I. Platnick en 1991. L analyse à trois éléments est aussi appelée 3ia …
128Science and British philosophy: Boyle and Newton — G.A.J.Rogers INTRODUCTION Achievements in the natural sciences in the period from Nicholas Copernicus (1473– 1543) to the death of Isaac Newton (1642–1727) changed our whole understanding of the nature of the universe and of the ways in which we… …
