Occam

Historical Examples

• The succession, as it were, of Occam to Duns Scotus, is of great interest.

  The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)

  Henry Osborn Taylor

• Here Occam would not follow him, as Aristotle would not follow Plato.

  The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)

  Henry Osborn Taylor

• Occam's razor will enable us at once to cut off such a theory.

  Applied Eugenics

  Paul Popenoe and Roswell Hill Johnson

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

  Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)

  Isaac D'Israeli

• He found in one of the later schoolmen, Occam, whom he preferred to all others, an opinion which he embraced.

  History of the Reformation of the Sixteenth Century, Volume III

  J. H. Merle D'Aubign