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Concise Oxford English Dictionary said:principle (or law) of parsimony: the scientific principle that things are usually connected in the simplest or most economical way.
reductionism: the practice of analysing and describing a complex phenomenon in terms of its simple or fundamental constituents, especially when this is said to provide a sufficient explanation.
what is the nature of the relationship, if any, between the two?
if parsimony is simplicity in explanation and reductionism is simplicity of mechanism, then is reductionism externally projected parsimony?