The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.

Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.