#Ockham's razor

[philosophybitmaps]

[elrohirtheneurodivergent]

To all music theorists, music teachers and the likes I ask this question:

Would it kill you to make use of Ockham's razor once in your fucking life and let a melody be a melody for melody's sake?!

[saintkevorkian]

“I have heard he is now close to a friend of mine in the curia, William of Occam.” “I knew him only slightly. I don’t like him. A man without fervor, all head, no heart.” “But the head is beautiful.” “Perhaps, and it will take him to hell.” “Then I will see him again down there, and we will argue logic.”

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco [1980]

[geopolicraticus]

TODAY IN PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

Copernicus and Our Place in History

Monday 19 February 2024 is the 551st anniversary of the birth of Nicolaus Copernicus (19 February 1473 to 24 May 1543), who was born in Torun, now part of Poland, on this date in 1473.

Copernicus stands virtually alone at the origin of the Scientific Revolution, and we find in his work many themes that would only slowly unfold over the coming centuries as the scientific method was further formalized. In this episode I discuss some of the philosophical aspects of the origins and development of the scientific method, and how these are the basis of a naturalistic conception of time and history, which we could call Copernican history.     

Quora:             https://philosophyofhistory.quora.com/ 

Discord:          https://discord.gg/r3dudQvGxD

Links:              https://jnnielsen.carrd.co/

Newsletter:    http://eepurl.com/dMh0_-/

Podcast:         https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nick-nielsen94/episodes/Copernicus-and-Our-Place-in-History-e2fvj3p  

[lecameleontv]

Captures de l’ Ep. 2.10 : Conflit d’experts / Ockham’s Razor (2003) de la série Preuve à l’Appui avec l’acteur Michael T Weiss.

Il y interprète le personnage secondaire James Horton pendant 4 épisodes.

Alias Jarod dans la série Le Caméléon

[borbersk]

My collection of razors is as follows:

Hanlan: never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity

Ockham: the most likely solution is most often the correct one

Hank: for anything that can be explained by socio-economic status in society, it's probably that rather than the thing you're measuring

Mehrune: stabstabstabstabstabcutstabstabstabstabstabstabstabstabstabcutstabstabstabstabcutstabstabstabstabstabstabstabstabcutstabstabstabcut

[purplecladmerchant]

And how to forget their rouge Morg Ockham.

[badboneszone]

William of Ockham wrote this post

Behind the scenes of Godzilla (1998)

[skybristle]

🫵

all the time i wish you had a discord so that we could yap at eachother about these losers

ALSO IM HONORED YOU TALK ABT MY STUPIDS TO YOUR FRIENDS ........ <3 <3 <3 <3 hope they're comfy in your brain. Not paying rent as usual

[honorthysalad]

the sins of the father and the duty of the son are pretty prominent themes in hgsn. After all, Hikaru only died because of his duty as an Indoh: apologizing for a crime he never committed that happened long before he was even born, just like his father did, and his father’s father before him did and so on. None of them ever met Hichi-San who (assumedly) made the original wish, but they’re still paying for his crime only for their blood association.

(The other part of his duty being to marry the first person he ‘falls in love with’ I think is pretty reflective. It doesn’t matter if they love him, only that he wants them, and he should take them and force them into his family for ‘their own safety’. But as Hikaru’s dad says, his prior girlfriends are all alive and well, so why does this rule still get propagated if it’s demonstrably untrue? It’s to make them start a family as soon as possible, to create that next link in a chain. If he cares for someone, he has to marry them immediately and marriages are to be consummated. Have a son, continue your family duty, and pass that duty onto your son when he comes of age. [if the basis of the rule is true though then it’s to keep them reproducing anyway. when a person is pregnant, there’s a fetomaternal transfer of cells, and I feel that’s when the protection would be ‘ensured’ because the person would have Indoh cells inside them. But that’s my rationalization for what can be answered with ‘ghost bullshit’. The Nounuki might just know they’re married because it’s a ghost or whatever.] Is ‘Hikaru’ so possessive over Yoshiki because it’s a spirit, or is it because that’s what Hikaru thought being a lover was supposed to be? That romantic love is ensuring protection over another person even if they don’t understand what you’re protecting them from because you know best. They have to stay by your side because you love them and your love is dangerous, but you can protect them from that danger by tying them to you. Then you won’t be dangerous anymore. [the answer is probably because ‘Hikaru’ is a ghost but eh]. I guess this makes Hikaru seem a lot more sinister than he’s portrayed but I don’t think he has like bad intentions- he’s just a product of his society that’s been grooming him to think these things and to fulfill these roles. ‘Hikaru’ being a monster is the natural outcome of society so flawed. It’s just finally coming to light.)

So yeah the Indoh family duty and rules are a bunch of patriarchal bullshit, but that’s kind of obvious.

somehow despite the Indohs being a mystery to be solved later in the plot, we know more about them then we do Yoshiki’s own family. The only things I can offer on this for him is that he’s shown to have a lot of stress and anxiety related to his father. From what we saw during the brain penis scene (…hopefully I’m not the only one who calls it that… it’s when he’s getting smooshed by brains or whatever), a few of the comments are related to his father: that Yoshiki looks more and more like him every passing day, that his father is awful, and that he’ll have to take over the family business [which apparently is a logging business? Guess he can’t take over as a hairdresser like his mom because… I mean well look at his hair]. Yoshiki doesn’t want to be like his dad [reason unknown. Toshi is possibly an alcoholic?] and so being compared to his dad causes him anxiety. He also seems to avoid his dad side of the family despite them interacting with him (gave him a watermelon one time. I don’t think his mom’s side of the family all the way in Tokyo could give him a watermelon) because we’ve never seen them once despite them being mentioned. Correct me if I’m wrong but from what I know a few traditional expectations for an eldest son are taking care of the parents, staying in the household and taking over the family business, and when the parents pass, to assume management of the household and property. All of that directly conflicts with his desire to leave the village and move to Tokyo. (I think I also read that the eldest son helps manage marriages which would explain why someone asked him about marrying off Kaoru. But I’m even less sure about that one)

Hikaru and Yoshiki take after their dads. Hikaru has a snaggle tooth like his dad and Yoshiki has moles on his face like his dad.

[saintkevorkian]

The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco [1980]

[birks-latest-obsession]

mystery trio college stuff

my brain is rotting like Fidds' i stg. anyways I can't stop thinking about a slightly happier version of gf where Ford takes Stan to bmu with him and they and Fidds become the mystery trio and it won't leave my head so here are the dumb thoughts:

Stan still gets kicked out like usual cause his dad is still an ass but Ford goes after him and convinces him to come to college with him, Stan is super against it at first cause he doesn't think he's smart enough but Ford convinces him he can do it.

Ford studying what he usually does and Stan studying business management to become an even better conman.

Alternatively Stan studying law and so knowing allll of the legal loopholes and being able to talk his way out of any problems Ford gets them into.

Fidds being unable to tell the two apart for like the entire first month.

The rest of the college not being able to tell the two apart at all cause Ford still holds his hands behind his back a lot of the time.

Like fr the only way they could tell them apart was by asking them to recite the digits of pi and seeing who could actually do it.

Then one day Stan starts memorizing the digits of pi just to fuck with the rest of the school.

Stan knowing that Fidds and Ford liked each other before they even realise themselves.

And Stan teasing the everloving hell out of Ford for it

And Ford is all "I have no idea what you mean Stanley!?" until one day it clicks and he's all "...oh shit you're right."

Stan calls Ford "Stanford." And Ford calls Stan "Stanley." And Fidds calls them both dumbasses.

Okay but Fidds giving them both a million and one nicknames to help himself distinguish at the start because "who tHE FUCK HAS TWINS AND CALLS THEM BOTH STAN???" but the names just stick and get progressively more cursed and just make everyone else at the college more confused.

Like Fidds has used: Stan jr, Stan snr, Ford, Lee, Wizzlord, Conman, Speccy, Firecracker, Fluff, The short one™, The hot one, The hotter one, Pillow, Nut, The Oracle, Jar, 10 Marshmallows, 20 Marshmallows, Curse bringer, Beef, Harbinger of death. And no I'm not going to tell you which twin has which names (Stan gets called Dumbass, Ford get's called Dumber-ass)

Fidds doing mechanical engineering or something and being the unwilling catalyst for all of the twin's crackhead invention ideas.

And yes I said twins plural. Because Ford is academically smart but Stan is creatively smart (legal loopholes yo, you gotta be creative) and gives crucial input on the designs that the other two spend loads of time overthinking then Stan points out the Ockham's razor and they feel like idiots (cause they are) (affectionatly.)

ahdhudshsawejskl I have too many feeling about these old men that deserved better

[purplecladmerchant]

Those are our adventuring OCs and I get to try new fun brushes on a draw if I want!

[wings-of-flying]

(spoilers for episode 114 and the black sea stuff in general)

who is the grandberry traitor?

the question isn't necessarily accurate as the traitor could be from a recruited pirate crew, like jaz's crew. however, the point still stands

grizzly has said no one's guessed exactly what will happen (whether that's about the plot in general or this specific thing isn't clear to me) which i'm going to assume means neither caspian, marshal john and rudith are the traitor

who does that leave? well, of the characters we know, not many. it could be lizzie, which would be interesting and she's got a possible motive plus doesn't approve of the black rose pirates. but...that doesn't seem likely. why would a spy recruit new pirates? why would a spy be so adamant in starting a war? there could be a reason, but we're working with ockham's razor here. the easiest solution is probably true

it could be a doppelganger of one of these known characters, which would be cool as fuck and difficult to guess, but i'm working on the assumption that whatever experiments are happening in the black sea's navy base aren't being used on a wide scale yet. this is an assumption that could be proven false, but it's what i'm going with for this. otherwise it's near impossible to guess who's the traitor. again, ockham's razor. easier solution

my evidence for this is that doppelgilly wasn't exactly perfect, yk. he didn't have to be, for his purpose of hunting down the intruders, but either they didn't have time to embue him with all gill's memories (possible, even likely) or they aren't able to do that yet (what i'm assuming is true)

so. lizzie probably isn't a doppelganger. no one who's well acquainted with either lizzie or the albatrio are likely doppelgangers. they wouldn't have the memories to prove themselves real

but what about someone who doesn't have any long standing connections (and therefore memories) with the albatrio (and lizzie)? they wouldn't need to be a perfect copy of themselves. they could just be a new person. no one would know

now this is where i'm gonna go a bit wild. because the previous paragraph makes sense to me. but there's also another solution. one which may be dumb but again. ockham's razor. it's simpler? maybe? (also this is an 'as i'm writing this' thought so bear with)

who do we know who's interacted very few times with the albatrio (and lizzie) and has recently become a pirate with a crew seemingly from nowhere? who's acted inconsistently with their previous iteration, but not enough to spark any questions? after all, it's possible grizzly just forgot that chip's marriage got annulled. it's possible that chip's wife also forgot this

that's right you fucks (/affectionate) i'm talking about amanda fucking rinn! my girl's been snatched and made into a doppelganger!

is this probably right? no. absolutely not. i'll shit myself if it is. but is it thought provoking? again no not really. but i'm putting it out there so that if it happens i can say I TOLD YOU SO! and if it doesn't i can play this off as a joke

anyway, it's probably a doppelganger. i mean, the concept of a traitor was released in the same episode gill got doppeled, so they're probably linked

[sgiandubh]

Fingir e brincar

Some afterthoughts.

In four years (and more), he still didn't learn to hold her hand properly. By now, it should be second nature and it is not. From clumsy pulse checking to clumsy fist grabbing - it begs the obvious question: why all this drama, people? Boredom? Thirst? Insecurity?

In four years (and more), still no resolve to name him. If I were Ockham (fun fact: this blog narrowly missed being named Occam's Razor), I would say she does this on purpose, since naming something or someone is giving them a life, a role, a purpose and maybe even a destiny. Instead, we have a well-mannered, but cold ' thank you for having me', which is baffling to read, really. Any way you turn it.

Two Portuguese verbs are very useful to describe this shitshow. The first is fingir. It means: to try and make something appear as true, in order to deceive, to fake, to pretend to be in some state, to make a false show of something and even to pretend to feel something.

The second is brincar. That one is a semantic juggernaut, meaning anything and the kitchen sink: to joke, to play, to fiddle, to frolic (and even to have intercourse no strings attached, oh là là and not applicable), to tease, to deceive, to toy with something or someone.

Her part of the Narrative is this permanent tension between fingir and brincar. The prop is irrelevant and to be honest, the blander - the better. You wouldn't like to have someone with a personality and charisma in that position, would you?

For what is worth, you'd have to thank my Mum, who was spot on, on the phone tonight: remember, Baby Bear - fingir e brincar.

The circumstantial trigger stays. Something prompted it for a good while, now. But I believe the rhetoric dynamic is the one I just described.

When in doubt, Bach. This is the best remedy I know for these moments of confusion, when bitterness lurks.

Good night :)