tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Dec 19 11:24:53 1998
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Re: Problem Words
At 09:10 PM 12/18/98 -0800, you wrote:
>From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
>>>From the Britannica Online:
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>> http://www.eb.com:180/cgi-bin/g?DocF=micro/434/46.html
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>> Ockham's razor
>> also spelled OCCAM'S RAZOR, also called LAW OF ECONOMY, or LAW OF
>> PARSIMONY, principle stated by William of Ockham (1285-1347/49),
>> a scholastic, that *non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter
>> necessitatem*; i.e., entities are not to be multiplied beyond
>> necessity.
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>The compilers of the Brittanica Encyclopedia should consider amending this
>entry to include: "Most Americans who take an interest in science-fiction
>now tout an incomplete knowledge of Ockham's razor due to their viewing the
>truly awful movie "Contact" based on Carl Sagan's only somewhat awful book
>CONTACT
Because you are my clan brother, I will try to forgive you this.
SuSvaj
(though his television series and book COSMOS were not awful at
>all). In fact, most of these Americans seem to think that they've always
>known about Ockham's razor and have applied it to other situations before,
>though this is certainly untrue.
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>"See also 'T-Rex: popular perversion of Tyrannosaurus in layman's vocabulary
>by author Michael Crichton.'"
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>Sorry for the completely off-topic message.
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>SuStel
>Stardate 98965.0
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