This Is Surely Missing The Point..?

"Occam's Razor is attributed to the 14th-century English logician, theologian and Franciscan friar William of Ockham who wrote 'entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity' (entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem). This may be alternatively phrased as pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate ("plurality should not be posited without necessity")."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam's_razor