in FOCUS \\ September '22 \\ SIMPLICITY
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” Leonardo da Vinci
In philosophical thought, elegance and parsimony are the two facets of simplicity. Simply put: you can experience simplicity either in the form of simple hypotheses, referred to as elegance or, in the form of methods, referred to as parsimony.
As if that were not sufficiently entangled, here is a logical paragraph explaining the parsimony of ontological simplicity:
"The basic notion of ontological parsimony is quite straightforward [...] A theory, T, is ontologically committed to Fs if and only if T entails that F's exist. If two theories, T1 and T2, have the same ontological commitments
except that T2 is ontologically committed to Fs and T1 is not, then T1 is more parsimonious than T2. " (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
I've studied this in mathematical logic in grade 8 ( or 9?), Romania. I never understood why. But now I know it was to teach me simplicity.
Because the road to simplicity is always passing through the thorny forest of complex thought.
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