Minimalism

Minimalism is artistic or practical simplicity.

The idea here is to distinguish between aesthetic and pragmatic or other conceptions of the term and provide citations or references to support the interpretation given.

Aesthetic Minimalism: In architecture, for example, minimalism is seen through building designs wherein the subject is reduced to essential elements for the beauty of efficiency and simplicity, among other things.

Philosophical Minimalism: In epistemology, for this instance, "Moral realists hold that moral claims purport to report facts, that they are evaluable as true or false in light of whether the facts are as the claims purport, and that at least some such claims are actually true...

"As minimalism would have it, saying that some claim is true is just a way of (re-)asserting the claim and carries no commitment beyond that expressed by the original claim. Thus, if one is willing to claim that 'murdering innocent children for fun is wrong' one can comfortably claim as well that 'murdering innocent children for fun is wrong is true' without thereby taking on any additional metaphysical baggage." - Geoff Sayre-McCord