Section 1.6 is on Occam's razor. The simpler the hypothesis, the easier it is to shoot down. This is Sir Karl Popper 's view of simplicity, which equates simplicity with falsifiability. My paper on The New Science of Simplicity argues that this viewpoint is wrong. Six criteria for evaluating worldviews .
Parsimony is criterion number one.
Ockham's Razor and Chemistry by Roald Hoffmann, Vladimir I. Minkin, Barry K. Carpenter . We begin by presenting William of Ockham's various formulations of his principle of parsimony, Ockham's Razor. We then define a reaction mechanism and tell a personal story of how Ockham's Razor entered the study of one such mechanism. A small history of methodologies related to Ockham's Razor, least action and least motion, follows. Which is not matched, to put it mildly, by current philosophical attitudes toward Ockham's Razor.