Source: Facebook

DEFINITION: PARSIMONY

“Lowest cost across all dimensions testable by man”

EXPANSION

– Given human faculties: sense, disambiguation (constant relations), perception(integration-prediction), auto-association-prediction, attention-prediction (will), recursion-prediction, and release of actions;

– And dimensions of tests of constant relations: free associative, categorical, logical, empirical, operational, rational choice, reciprocal rational choice, completeness;

Parsimony must refer to:

“Lowest Cost”, expanded to:

– the lowest cost (least information), description of a chain of causation

– surviving tests of: entropy, realism, naturalism, operationalism,

– and;

– bounded rational self interest:

– in the seizure of opportunity,

– from the field of identified opportunities,

– given the opportunity cost of the opportunity,

– determined by competition for the greatest return in the shortest time for the least effort, with the greatest certainty at the lowest risk,

– to the point of disequilibrium and subsequent re-equilibration,

– eliminating the opportunity from the field of opportunities.

– and

– reciprocity (repeating the above) is the only productive rather than parasitic (costly) means of interaction.

(- although parasitism and predation are profitable means of interaction, they are consumptive not productive.)

The difference between:

– Testimony (due diligence by self),

– Coherence(consistency by audience),

– Parsimony(competition by market),

… is grammatical (point-of-view), and an application of and conformity to,

– the law of epistemology (free association-idea-> hypothesis-surviving > theory-surviving > application-surviving)

I can fuss with this a bit to make it as tight as reciprocity and testimony, or any of the other definitions, but ‘skeptical subjective testing against Occam’s Razor serves as the colloquial reduction.