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William of ___ (friar with a famous razor)
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occam
Alternative clues for the word occam
- Thinker with a "razor"
- William of ___, known for his "razor" maxim
- Philosopher who favored simpler explanations
- Eponymous William's birthplace
- English philosopher William of _____
- Non-shaving razor name?
- Philosopher with a razor-sharp mind?
- William of ___ (philosopher known for his razor)
- Philosopher known for his "razor"
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.