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#17 · Posted: 20 Feb 2007 22:43
yamilah Alas I couldn't find the slightest connection between Tintin and Occam, I think you are being deliberately obtuse, although it may be for comic effect: it was being suggested that if you thought to use the principle of Occam's Razor, a powerful tool in analysis ("the law of parsimony"), you would soon find that the whole edifice you have constructed (and I do mean you, I don't attribute any of it to Hergé) does not stand up to any sort of scrutiny.
contrary to quotes from Caesar*, Dante*, Cervantes*, Hugo*, Lamartine*, Longfellow*, etc all found in Tintin This is yet again a non sequitur: the fact that Hergé made allusions to poets and poetry only shows that he made allusions to poets and poety - so what? Allusion is a standard technique in art and literature, it does not entail a hidden message.
Did you find one? Or is yours just some free -not to say unconstrained- interpretation? Is it necessary to always try and undermine anyone who offers advice? Can't you, just for once, say, "Ah, that's useful! I could try applying that!"? Contrary to your barb, mondrian is operating within very strict and sound principles: it is your tracking-game which is wholly free and interpretative, as it allows you to only accept those elements which you choose to include, and ignore absolutely anything you don't want, at will.
Notice how quickly you reacted against mondrian's assertion that you were using abduction, and then more or less instantly used the notion that what you are doing is abduction to co-opt Eco and Pierce as "support", as if bandying their names about would give your approach validity, and discredit what I had explained about abduction (a curiously topsy-turvey argument, but that's not unusual).
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