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Simplicity
Simplicity is the property, condition, or quality of being simple or un-combined. It often denotes beauty, purity or clarity. Simple things are usually easier to explain and understand than complicated ones. Simplicity can mean freedom from hardship, effort or confusion. more...
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It may also refer to a simple living lifestyle.
According to Occam's razor, all other things being equal, the simplest theory is the most likely to be true β hence the importance of the concept of simplicity in epistemology. According to Thomas Aquinas, God is infinitely simple.
Members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) practice the Testimony of Simplicity, which is the simplifying of one's life in order to focus on things that are most important and disregard or avoid things that are least important.
In MCS cognition theory, simplicity is the property of a domain which requires very little information to be exhaustively described. The opposite of simplicity is complexity.
Simplicity in the philosophy of science
Simplicity is a meta-scientific criterion by which to evaluate competing theories. See also Occam's Razor and references. The similar concept of Parsimony is also used in philosophy of science, that is the explanation of a phenomenon which is the least involved is held to have superior value to a more involved one.
Quotes
"Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means." β Koichi Kawana, architect of botanical gardens;
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." β Albert Einstein (1879β1955);
"Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible." β Alan Kay;
"You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity." β Richard Feynman (1918β1988);
"Our lives are frittered away by detail; simplify, simplify." β Henry David Thoreau (1817β1862);
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." β Leonardo da Vinci (1452β1519);
"If you can't describe it simply, you can't use it simply." β Anon;
"Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought." β William Hazlitt;
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." β Antoine de Saint-Exupery;
"Seek simplicity and distrust it" -- Alfred North Whitehead;
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