Diagnostic Parsimony
Ockham’s razor is the idea that simpler hypotheses are to be preferred over more complex ones. In the context of medical diagnosis, this is taken to mean that when a patient has multiple symptoms, a single diagnosis should be sought that accounts for all the clinical features, rather than attributin...
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| Lingua: | English |
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University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
2022-12-01
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| Serie: | Philosophy of Medicine |
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| Accesso online: | https://philmed.pitt.edu/philmed/article/view/123 |