This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right.
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The print shows Ockham himself, inspired by an image of him from a stained glass window in Surrey, the proverbial razor & many unlikely things (aliens, ghosts, cryptozoological creatures) it would cut away.
This print is part of my on-going series, Imaginary Friends of Science. The Imaginary Friends are charismatic thought-experiments, throughout the history of science, which have taken on a life of their own.
The series so far includes Maxwell's Demon, Descartes' Demon, Laplace's Demon, Schroedinger's Cat, Russell’s Teapot, Hilbert’s Grand Hotel, Lyell’s Amphibious Being and the Spherical Cow.
I don’t know his birthday but the Anglican Church has a Commemoration of Ochkam day April 10 so it seems a good day to reshare.