#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.     

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[thebardostate]

That's something I studied as an astrophysics undergraduate, but I'm more familiar with it as the Brachistocrone Problem (the Feynman neologism hadn't become into common usage yet.)

Classically, it means that an object will follow a trajectory that minimizes its path through phase space. More familiarly, it means an object will take the path of least resistance (action.)

I can see how you're looking at it here, that's an interesting idea to equate simplicity with action. That's food for thought. But whereas the physics of trajectories can be calculated very precisely (New Horizons' encounter with the Pluto system is Exhibit A), simplicity is in the eye of the beholder. It is a common misconception that the Copernician system surpassed the Ptolemaic system because it was simpler. Not so; until Kepler came along with his elliptical orbits and laws of planetary motion (while he was looking for something else, as it happened), the Ptolemaic system made better predictions because Copernicus envisaged that planets orbited the Sun in perfectly circular orbits.

Thus, "simplicity" is too thin a reed to hold any real force in physics except as a tacked-on value judgment offered for the purpose of saving a cherished framework *cough dark energy cough*

Now complexity, that's a different story.

“It is pointless to do with more what can be done with fewer.”

— William of Ockham, Summa Totius Logicae

[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

[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

[philosophybits]

Armed with the distinction between facts and values, or brandishing Ockham's razor like a club, the spokesperson for the Modern Scientific World View declares that there cannot be ethical knowledge, that we can explain the moral phenomena without positing the existence of moral entities or facts, or that intrinsically normative entities are just too queer to exist. And the moral philosopher, frantic with the sense of impending loss, rushes to the defence of ethical knowledge. And almost nobody pauses to ask whether knowledge of ethical objects, or indeed any sort of knowledge at all, is really what we want here in the first place.

Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity

[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