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Monthly Archives: May 2010

Ockham's Razor

Monday, May 17, 2010

It's one of those phrases you hear and think you know what it means.  Something about simplicity.  This definition crossed my screen via A.Word.A.Day and I thought it nice and succinct. Ockham's razor states that "entities should not be multiplied needlessly". It's also called the principle of parsimony. It's the idea that other things being [...]

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Literalism and Poetic License

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

The television series Mad Men got grief because the Selectric Typewriter had not been introduced at the time of its first episode.  Recently, Treme got grief because the first episode had a character reach into a purse and pull out a Hubig's Pie (a New Orleans staple) when in fact the Hubig's bakery wasn't open [...]

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