Principle of “economy of thought”, or principle of “the least expenditure of energy”, is a basic theory in Machian epistemology. This principle advocates the use of the most economical, least strenuous or simplest principle that can explain everything in philosophical thinking, i.e., the principle of “sole existence of sensations”, which reduces the world to the world of sensations. Principle of economy of thought started from the doctrine of apriorism, it declared that both the causality and “substance” (matter) were “eliminated”, it negates the objective causality, and denies the viewpoint that sensations are the reflections of the objective world, regarded sensations as transcendental and as the sole existence, thus fell into pure subjective idealism, was not a “Marxist tendency” at all…
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