Occam's razor (i)

"2. The virus of encyclopedism in definitions should be recognized and resisted. There is a role and a place for illustrative detail, but that role and place is not in a definition. Social science is content to tolerate exceptions to its theories—it is satisfied with explanations covering most cases, not each and every one. In the definition of strategic concepts, more detail inevitably promotes less clarity and therefore less understanding. William of Occam should be regarded as the patron saint of wordsmithing for strategic conceptualization. ..."

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