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