{"id":647,"date":"2004-06-15T21:15:20","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T04:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=647"},"modified":"2004-06-15T21:15:20","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T04:15:20","slug":"occam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/06\/15\/occam\/","title":{"rendered":"Occam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I put away Jorge Luis Borges many years ago when I wrote my Literature thesis as an undergrad.  Tonight I returned to him and read <i>Death and the Compass<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It&#8217;s possible, but not interesting,&#8221; L\u00f6nnrot answered. &#8220;You will reply that reality hasn&#8217;t the slightest need to be of interest. And I&#8217;ll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypothesis may not . . .&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I put away Jorge Luis Borges many years ago when I wrote my Literature thesis as an undergrad. Tonight I returned to him and read Death and the Compass: &#8220;It&#8217;s possible, but not interesting,&#8221; L\u00f6nnrot answered. &#8220;You will reply that reality hasn&#8217;t the slightest need to be of interest. And I&#8217;ll answer you that reality &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2004\/06\/15\/occam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Occam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[29,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fragment","category-read-you-tweed"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}