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And so no force, however great, Can stretch a cord, however fine, Into a horizontal line That shall be absolutely straight. Quoted as an example of accidental metre and rhyme. William Whewell		Wednesday May 21, 2025
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Popper associates 'simplicity' with 'paucity of parameters', whereas we have a rather more general concept of simplicity paucity of terms in the model. J.M. Maciejowski

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	J.M. Maciejowski
	The Modelling of Systems with Small Observation Sets, Springer-Verlag, 1978, p180.

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Our guiding idea has been, other things being equal, complexity in a model indicates vacuousness rather than sophistication. Popper associates 'simplicity' with 'paucity of parameters', whereas we have a rather more general concept of simplicity paucity of terms in the model.