If you have a stuffy nose, a fever, chills, and body aches and a doctor treats you for the flu rather than four separate diseases that account for each of your symptoms, this is an application of
A) Newton's hypothesis.
B) Occam's razor.
C) Aristotle's test.
D) Einstein's relativity.
E) the Copernican principle.

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Occam's razor is a principle that suggests that the simplest explanation, often involving the fewest assumptions, is usually the correct one. In this case, treating the symptoms as a single disease (the flu) rather than four separate diseases is an application of this principle.

If You Have a Stuffy Nose, a Fever, Chills, and Body