This reasoning concept favours fewer unnecessary assumptions when explanations otherwise fit the evidence equally well. It is a guide to choosing models, not proof that the simplest story is true.

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Modus ponens, a basic deductive rule, concludes a result follows once a statement and its condition both hold.
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