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"Story Potential".

And here we split. If one theory leads to a very bad story- one with contradictions or near-contradictions- then I'm happy to throw it out.

If it leads to a mediocre story? That matches Occam's Razor? I'll take it.

By the way, here's the original form of the razor: "Entities should not be multiplied without necessity." Don't add extra parts to the theory unless they are necessary to make it fit the evidence. This is a simple conclusion of any statistical analysis on a topic; adding more assumptions always decreases the probability. And the most probable theory...

...Is probably correct.