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Philosopher known for his "razor"
Answer for the clue "Philosopher known for his "razor" ", 5 letters:
occam
Alternative clues for the word occam
- English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
- Home of William, known for his logical "razor"
- William of -- ('razor' philosopher)
- Creator of a philosophical "razor"
- --'s razor ('keep it simple' maxim)
- Non-shaving razor name?
- Philosopher with a razor-sharp mind?
- English philosopher William of _____
- William of ___, known for his "razor" maxim
- Computer programming language
Usage examples of occam.
Even in the later schoolmen, like Biel and Occam, still more in the humanists, one finds a much stronger rationalism than in the representative thinkers of the Middle Ages.
We went to Dartmouth's Winter Carnival together and canoodled afterward in the icy moonlight under a bearskin rug in Denis's antique sleigh over by Occam Pond, nearly freezing our silly petards off.
And one might think that, according to his way of seeing things, John was right, because during those four months Michael had become a friend of my master’s friend, the other William, the one from Occam, and had come to share his ideas—more extreme, but not very different from those my master shared with Marsilius and had expounded that morning.
William of Occam, one of Earth's pioneers in scientific method, established that one must not multiply logical entities without sufficient reason.