Comments on: Occam’s Needle [Tattoo] http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Mon, 13 Feb 2012 19:00:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tattoo News Review … and contest http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/comment-page-1/#comment-15938 Tattoo News Review … and contest Sat, 21 Mar 2009 08:03:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/#comment-15938 [...] Zimmer’s science tattoo blog features another hot geek, and I love those tattooed geeks just as much as the scary Rescue dudes. [Maybe it's all the spiked [...] [...] Zimmer’s science tattoo blog features another hot geek, and I love those tattooed geeks just as much as the scary Rescue dudes. [Maybe it's all the spiked [...]

]]> By: JoseAngel http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/comment-page-1/#comment-13049 JoseAngel Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:15:51 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/#comment-13049 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 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

]]> By: Tattoo 42 » Blog Archive » Tattoo News Review … and contest http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/comment-page-1/#comment-13002 Tattoo 42 » Blog Archive » Tattoo News Review … and contest Tue, 23 Dec 2008 22:48:54 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/#comment-13002 [...] Zimmer’s science tattoo blog features another hot geek, and I love those tattooed geeks just as much as the scary Rescue dudes. [Maybe it's all the spiked [...] [...] Zimmer’s science tattoo blog features another hot geek, and I love those tattooed geeks just as much as the scary Rescue dudes. [Maybe it's all the spiked [...]

]]> By: G. Tingey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/comment-page-1/#comment-12970 G. Tingey Sun, 21 Dec 2008 20:29:35 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/#comment-12970 I always thought it read: Entia non sunt mutiplcanda praeter necessitatem ... ????? I always thought it read:

Entia non sunt mutiplcanda praeter necessitatem …

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]]> By: John Faughnan http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/comment-page-1/#comment-12956 John Faughnan Sun, 21 Dec 2008 03:08:30 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/#comment-12956 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 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

]]> By: Laura http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/comment-page-1/#comment-12920 Laura Fri, 19 Dec 2008 14:49:40 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2008/12/19/occams-needle/#comment-12920 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. 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.

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