parsimonious explanation

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parsimonious
adjective
uk /ˌpɑː.sɪˈməʊ.ni.əs/ us /ˌpɑːr.səˈmoʊ.ni.əs/
not willing to spend money or use a lot ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk /ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/ us /ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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Examples of parsimonious explanation

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The most parsimoniousexplanation would be that no functional synapses were formed in the outer plexiform layer to allow for synaptic transmission in these mice.
Epidemiological processes appear to be the most parsimoniousexplanation for the diversity, abundance and distribution of ectoparasite species infecting fish.
In conclusion, epidemiology is the most parsimoniousexplanation of the order that may be observed in ectoparasite assemblages.
This is something that rational choice theorists often neglect, in their desire to attain rigorous and, hence, parsimoniousexplanation.
I propose a more parsimoniousexplanation that assumes that a general preference for symmetry is due to a hidden preference inherent to all sensory systems.
The most parsimoniousexplanation for this finding is a reduction of soma and neuropil size.
We believe, however, that the framework that we propose does provide a parsimoniousexplanation for many apparently unrelated breast cancer behaviors.
Our model suggests a far more parsimoniousexplanation, provided that we make some additional assumptions.
A more parsimoniousexplanation is that verbal short-term memory is a process that involves continuous maintenance of long-term memory representations at enhanced levels of activation.
The most parsimoniousexplanation is that they are chance findings.
The most parsimoniousexplanation is that oligodendroglia express a-synuclein at low levels normally but that expression increases because of some abnormal stress in the disease.
This paper examines whether processing limitations in learning may provide a more parsimonious explanation of the data without the need to assume full competence.
That may indeed be the most parsimoniousexplanation for the findings they describe.
The most parsimoniousexplanation is that this bias reflects some sort of pre-logical tendency to emphasize the negative.
Although a featurebased account cannot be ruled out, it is however the less parsimoniousexplanation.
Once the basic emotions are recognized as adaptations, a more parsimoniousexplanation for the threat simulation and rehearsal in dreams than the one revonsuo offers is available.
In fact, this is by far the more parsimoniousexplanation because it invokes a single explanans, the physical brain, to account for the properties of both mind and brain.
This is not a parsimoniousexplanation and the number of hosts in the life-cycle does not seem to be a useful character to explain the phylogeny of these species.
They point to spiderwebs as examples of "rather sophisticated geometric objects" produced "without the need for higher cognitive processes," and suggest that simple mechanics is a more parsimoniousexplanation.
In fact, this is by far the more parsimoniousexplanation because it employs a single explanans, the brain, to account for the properties of mind and brain.
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