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___'s Razor (philosophical law of simplicity)
Answer for the clue "___'s Razor (philosophical law of simplicity) ", 5 letters:
occam
Alternative clues for the word occam
- William of ___ (English philosopher)
- Creator of a logical "razor"
- Philosopher who posited that the simplest explanation is the most likely one
- English philosopher William of _____
- Reasoner with a "razor"
- Home of William, known for his logical "razor"
- Whence philosopher William
- William of ___, known for his "razor" maxim
Word definitions for occam in dictionaries
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occam is a concurrent programming language that builds on the communicating sequential processes (CSP) process algebra, and shares many of its features. It is named after William of Ockham of Occam's Razor fame. occam is an imperative procedural 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.