Jimmy writes, “This is a picture of my recent ink in commemoration of getting my Ph.D in Molecular Pharmacology. Occam’s Razor in its original Latin text –Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate–roughly translated, plurality should never be posited without necessity. I’ve always subscribed to this fundamental tenet behind the scientific method not only in my passion for science, but also in my beliefs in philosophy and religion.
Occam’s Needle [Tattoo]
December 19th, 2008 at 10:49 am
This is one of the coolest tattoos I’ve seen in a while! The script is lovely, and I’d be really interested to find out where this version of the sentence originated.
December 20th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Thanks for adding the [tattoo] tag to your tattoo posts!
I don’t know if it was done in response to my prior comment, but I sure appreciate it. Now I can skip those in my feed reader (exception this one of course)!
john
December 21st, 2008 at 4:29 pm
I always thought it read:
Entia non sunt mutiplcanda praeter necessitatem …
?????
December 23rd, 2008 at 6:48 pm
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December 27th, 2008 at 5:15 am
A needless needle. And a self-deconstructing tattoo: “nunquam ponendum est tattoo sine necessitate”.
On variants and formulations of Occam’s razor, see W.M. Thorburn, “The Myth of Occam’s Razor”, Mind (1918).
http://sveinbjorn.org/files/papers/MythOfOccamsRazor.pdf
March 21st, 2009 at 4:03 am
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