Occam

or Ock·ham

[ ok-uhm ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Occam

/ ˈɒkəm /

The cause of the Nominalists was almost desperate, till Occam in the fourteenth century revived the dying embers.

Melanchthon read the writings of William Occam, an old scholastic, with great zeal.

This empirical identification of meaning by means of the specific fact of suggestion cuts deep—if Occam's razor still cuts.

His work consists in the systematic development of the views of his master, William of Occam.

The school of St. Thomas engaged in it early against the theory of Occam, which was quite similar to that which we combat.

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