The idea is that Occam's razor may not be as ' unrestricted ' as it is normally described ( applying to all qualitative postulates, even abstract ones ) but instead concrete ( only applies to physical objects ).

If one applies Occam's Razor unrestrictedly, then it recommends monism until pluralism either receives more support, or until it is disproved.

If one applies Occam's Razor only concretely, then it may not be used on abstract concepts ( this route, however, has serious consequences for selecting between hypotheses about the abstract ).

William of Ockham, who lived during the time of the novel, first put forward the principle known as " Ockham's Razor ": often summarised as the dictum that one should always accept as most likely the simplest explanation that accounts for all the facts ( a method used by William of Baskerville in the novel ), which William applies in a manner analogous to that in which Sherlock Holmes applies his familiar ( and arguably related ) dictum that when one has eliminated the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be the truth.

The Ruling suggests also that it applies to either a statutory or contractual reorganization.

It would seem from the description of Ahab's possession that idée fixe applies quite accurately, as the following description suggests:

" The use of the plural form " wugs " by the child suggests that they have applied a plural rule to the form, and that this knowledge is not specific to prior experience with the word but applies to all nouns, whether familiar or novel.

After being fired from the waxworks in the first episode, Amberley suggests Rufus applies to be the Dream Maker's assistant, as he is perfectly qualified for it because of his constant daydreaming.

He applies this to humans and suggests that genes which generated altruistic-tit for tat behaviour would be likely to be passed on and therefore give rise to the kind of behaviour we see today.

Donald suggests that the increasing reliance on external memory media in this third stage, which applies in varying degrees to most people in the developed world, may have profound effects on our cognitive development and behavior: The externalization of memory was initially very gradual, with the invention of the first permanent external symbols.

A woman applies her first patch onto her upper outer arm, buttocks, abdomen or thigh on either the first day of her menstrual cycle ( day 1 ) or on the first Sunday following that day, whichever she prefers.

It also applies to mean something towards which one is inclined or which one prefers, even if it is not approved by others.

For example Connecticut applies the following standard to review unpreserved claims: 1. the record is adequate to review the alleged claim of error ; 2. the claim is of constitutional magnitude alleging the violation of a fundamental right ; 3. the alleged constitutional violation clearly exists and clearly deprived the defendant of a fair trial ; 4. if subject to harmless error analysis, the state has failed to demonstrate harmlessness of the alleged constitutional violation beyond a reasonable doubt.

The voluntariness standard applies to all police interrogations regardless of the custodial status of the suspect and regardless of whether the suspect has been formally charged.

Because Miranda applies only to custodial interrogations, it does not protect detainees from standard booking questions such as name and address.

While actual malice standard applies to public officials and public figures, in Philadelphia Newspapers v. Hepps,, the Court found that, with regard to private individuals, the First Amendment does " not necessarily force any change in at least some features of the common-law landscape.

There have been a variety of criticisms of this treaty, including that it is too broad ( for example in its prohibition of circumvention of technical protection measures, even where such circumvention is used in the pursuit of legal and fair use rights ) and that it applies a ' one size fits all ' standard to all signatory countries despite widely differing stages of economic development and knowledge industry.

Next, for each neighbor, the BGP process applies various standard and implementation-dependent criteria to decide which routes conceptually should go into the Adj-RIB-In.

They do not affirm or deny that moral facts exist, only that human logic applies to our moral assertions ; consequently, they postulate an objective and preferred standard of moral justification, albeit in a very limited sense.

As the higher standard of informed consent applies to negligence, not battery, the other elements of negligence must be made out.

" This standard applies only to vehicle searches after the suspect has been placed under arrest and overruled New York v. Belton by saying it must be " reasonable to believe " there is more evidence in the vehicle of the crime the suspect was arrested for.

This is the highest standard used as the burden of proof in Anglo-American jurisprudence and typically only applies in criminal proceedings.

* present a statement of financial position ( balance sheet ) as at the beginning of the earliest comparative period in a complete set of financial statements when the entity applies the new standard.

The groundwater protection standard is consistent with EPA's Safe Drinking Water Act standards, which the Agency applies in many situations as a pollution prevention measure.

If insured for disability and not currently receiving benefits, an applicant for SSI also applies for Social Security Disability Insurance Benefits ( DIB ), and the standard by which applicants are judged to be disabled is virtually the same for both SSI and DIB

The ISO 19011 audit standard applies when auditing for both 9000 and 14000 compliance at once.

If the measures of correlation used are product-moment coefficients, the correlation matrix is the same as the covariance matrix of the standardized random variables X < sub > i </ sub > / σ ( X < sub > i </ sub >) for i = 1, ..., n. This applies to both the matrix of population correlations ( in which case " σ " is the population standard deviation ), and to the matrix of sample correlations ( in which case " σ " denotes the sample standard deviation ).

In Oregon and other places, a stricter standard applies -— running a yellow light is an offense, unless the motorist is unable to stop safely.

This precedent was later invoked in MGM v. Grokster ( 2005 ), where the high court agreed that the same " substantial noninfringing uses " standard applies to authors and vendors of peer-to-peer file sharing software ( notably excepting those who " actively induce " copyright infringement through " purposeful, culpable expression and conduct ").

( In case of MB certified oils, the standard applies to oils used in trucks and personal cars alike, so every Mercedes engine was expected to use the same oil, while other small car makers were satisfied with the generic — and thus least performing lubricants available and caught up recently when the legislation from the European Council mandated them to improve fuel consumption and improve emissions.

develops a unified definition of " open standard " from multiple sources, then applies it to a particular standard

At frequencies much below the quantity inside the radical is close to unity and the standard formula applies.

TDB applies to the Solar-System-barycentric reference frame, and was first defined in 1976 as a successor to the ( non-relativistic ) former standard of ephemeris time ( adopted by the IAU in 1952 and superseded 1976 ).

Semper Fi: Business Leadership the Marine Corps Way by Dan Carrison and Rod Walsh applies the tradition of Semper Fidelis to business leadership principles and business management practices from the “ recruit training ” that will become the new industry standard, to instilling confidence and leading from all levels, everything that is necessary to attain success is put together piece by piece.

The concept applies an electric field through a tumour region using electrodes external to the body.

Contemporary medicine applies health science, biomedical research, and medical technology to diagnose and treat injury and disease, typically through medication or surgery, but also through therapies as diverse as psychotherapy, external splints & traction, prostheses, biologics, ionizing radiation and others.

It applies the EU's common external tariff to goods from other countries ( including the U. S .).

An encoding default applies when there is no external or internal encoding declaration and also no Byte order mark.

Office etiquette in particular applies to coworker interaction, excluding interactions with external contacts such as customers and suppliers.

For a parallel resonant circuit the opposite applies ; small inductances reduce the damping of external circuitry.

European Union law also applies in territories where a member state is responsible for external relations, for example Gibraltar and the Åland islands.

Generally, the plastic surgeon first separates the nasal skin and the soft tissues from the osseo-cartilagenous nasal framework, and then corrects ( reshapes ) them as required, afterwards, sutures the incisions, and then applies either an external or an internal stent, and tape, to immobilize the newly reconstructed nose, and so facilitate the healing of the surgical cuts.

Further, because the energy for a dipole of fixed magnitude aligned with the external field will be the square root of the energy above, the same analysis applies.

Article 355 ( 3 ) ( ex Article 299 ( 4 )) applies the treaty to " the European territories for whose external relations a Member State is responsible ", a provision which in practice only applies to Gibraltar.

Similarly, there is a gulf of evaluation that applies to the gap between an external stimulus and the time a person understands what it means.

But the chair applies an external upwards force preventing the person from falling.

A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in human and environmental well-being, rather than maximising profits for external shareholders.

Carezani later argued that the experiment was not relevant for comparing the two theories by pointing out that AD applies specifically to decay cases, yet the electrons in the Noyes experiment received energy from the external medium ( klystron EM field ).

A particle injected into such a plasma would be accelerated by the charge separation field, but since the magnitude of this separation is generally similar to that of the external field, apparently nothing is gained in comparison to a conventional system that simply applies the field directly to the particle.

The Zodiac Aerospace Group applies a strategy built on internal and external growth in niche markets that offer a high technology content, generate significant after-sales support business and have the potential to establish the Group as a world leader.

It has been very clearly demonstrated that things learned in one environment are best recalled when that environment is reinstated ; and, moreover, this applies equally well to “ internal ” environments ( or states ) as it does to “ external ” environments.

More than 90 % of intra-Mercosur trade is duty-free, while the group's common external tariff ( CET ) applies to more than 85 % of imported goods.