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occam
Alternative clues for the word occam
- Philosopher who posited that the simplest explanation is the most likely one
- William of __, logician known for his "razor"
- William of ___ (philosopher known for his razor)
- Eponymous William's birthplace
- Philosopher who lent his name to a "razor"
- Noted English philosopher: 14th century
- --'s razor ('keep it simple' maxim)
- William of ___, known for his "razor" maxim
- Senior officer taking academic stream in philosopher William's place
- Whence philosopher William
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.