What Is Parsimony?

Parsimony, it's just this idea that you shouldn't increase the number of assumptions beyond what is absolutely necessary in order to get your explanation across. In my mind, it's the same as ockam's raisor. And so proliferating the bricks and mortar is not a violation of parsimony. It's an endorsement of it, ats a correct use of it. So let's go to the fabric of reality. We have no hope, at the moment, with present technology, of seeing planets going around stars and other galaxies. But we know there must be planets going aroundstars and other galaxies,. Because our best theory of planetary formation says that when a star forms