Posts Tagged ‘parsimony’
“Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it”*…
From Kieran Healy, a nifty visualization of the relationships among three time-honored eponymous “rules”: “Occam’s Razor,” “Chekhov’s Gun,” and “Chesterton’s Fence.”
“Razor, Gun, Fence” from @kjhealy.co.
* Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 (echoing Proverbs 1:20-21, in which Lady Wisdom is portrayed calling out in public places, but most often ignored)
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As we ponder perspicacity, we might recall that on this date in 2012 a tragic instance of Chekhov’s Law occurred: a mass shooting occurs at a movie theater in Aurora, a Denver suburb, killing 12 people—the youngest a 6-year-old girl—and injuring at least 70 others… one of a way-too-long list of the guns around us in the U.S. going off in mass shootings.
The Law of Parsimony, Applied…
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As we celebrate simplicity, we might recall that it was on this date in 1929 that Popeye met Olive Oyl (in Elzie Segar’s daily comic strip “Thimble Theater”). Olive had been a regular since the comic premiered a decade before; Popeye had been introduced 7 days before… but became so popular (both via “Thimble Theatre” and thanks to Max and Dave Fleischer’s Popeye cartoons, which began in 1933) that the strip was renamed in his honor.
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