Ockham

How to use Ockham in a sentence

• Ockham in particular falls very short of what I had expected; and his nominalism is strangely different from that of Berkeley.

  View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3) | Henry Hallam

• He had been staying not far off—at Ockham, I think—and the telegram had been sent on.

  Chronicles of Martin Hewitt | Arthur Morrison

• His debt to Ockham revealed itself in his earliest efforts at Church reform.

  History of the English People, Volume II (of 8) | John Richard Green

• William of Occam (d. 1349), so called from his birthplace, Ockham, in Surrey.

  A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) | Augustus de Morgan

• Ockham and Gerson had resolved this in the affirmative, Aquinas the contrary way.

  Introduction to the Literature of Europe in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Vol. 2 | Henry Hallam