Ontologically basic mental entities violate Occam's Razor

Because "a witch did it" or "Thor did it" takes not many English syllables to say, it seems a short explanation. But it is not short to Occam's Razor. In terms of Kolmogorov complexity (which forms part of the formalization of Occam's Razor called Minimum Message Length), "witch" is a label packing some extraordinary assertions, and the word "it" also packs a lot of information. A verbally longer explanation that does not use such dense labels can be much simpler as Occam's Razor judges it.

• witches, God, Nature … when involved in an explanation, these entities are frequently treated as ontologically basic mental entities, creating a false sense of simplicity