William of Ockham – hidden pilcrow

sculpture of a human head and a hand in a thoughtful pose made of letters against the background of the alphabet

The law of parsimony

Published on 23/07/202323/07/2023 by Maciej Modzelewski1 Comment

Not that I am being overly parsimonious,
but is not our alphabet somewhat extravagant?
Why not emulate the Rotokas’ twelve letters?
I am sure they can still construct the whole
of human knowledge out of them.