- a variation of Occam.
Ockham
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noun
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By “entities,” Ockham meant concepts or mechanisms or moving parts.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The husband and wife fled across the Atlantic in December that year, settling first in Ockham, Surrey, before making their home at 26 Cambridge Grove, a mid-Victorian House in Hammersmith, west London.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2021
Named for 14th-century philosopher William of Ockham, Occam’s razor is the scientific principle that “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
From Scientific American ● Sep. 25, 2021
William of Ockham is the medieval philosopher who gave us what is perhaps the world's only metaphysical knife.
From Salon ● Jun. 13, 2021
William of Ockham, the last of the great English schoolmen that won fame in the European rather than in the English world, died about 1349 in the service of the Bavarian emperor.
From The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) by Hunt, William
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