https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor
For each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there may be an extremely large, perhaps even incomprehensible, number of possible and more complex alternatives, because one can always burden failing explanations with ad hoc hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified; therefore, simpler theories are preferable to more complex ones because they are more testable.
The potential application of this theory is unlimited, yet not necessarily without rather egregious flaws.
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