Occam

Another argument involves evolution and applies Occam’s razor—the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

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.