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Occam or Ockham may refer to:

  • William of Ockham, the Medieval philosopher and theologian
  • Ockham Development Group, Oncology CRO
  • Ockham, Surrey, believed to be the birthplace of the philosopher
  • Occam's razor, a methodological principle named after the philosopher
  • Occam's Razor (Improv Troupe), a comedy improv troupe
  • Ockham's Razor Theatre Company, an aerial theatre company
  • occam programming language, also named after the philosopher
  • Occam process, a method for the manufacture of populated, printed circuit boards
  • Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine, an office of the National Cancer Institute
  • Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics, a research centre at the University of Oxford

Usage examples of "ockham".

But facing that crescent everywhere--at Staines, Hounslow, Ditton, Esher, Ockham, behind hills and woods south of the river, and across the flat grass meadows to the north of it, wherever a cluster of trees or village houses gave sufficient cover--the guns were waiting.

This was strongly set forth in the ethical voluntarism of William of Ockham, who grounded the natural law of morality on the will of God.

Puritan theology, for example, drew a distinction between the ordinary and extraordinary Providences of God that is strongly reminiscent of the voluntarist theories of Ockham.

Hatch was struck by how overengineered the Pit seemed to be: It was as if Macallan had built it to last a millennium, instead of the few years it would take for Ockham to return and retrieve his treasure.

We know, for example, that Ockham took fourteen tons of gold from the Spanish Plate Fleet alone, and ten times that in silver.

Here am I upholding the good fame of the learned Duns Scotus against the foolish quibblings and poor silly reasonings of Willie Ockham.