- 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
They reasoned at imminent peril of being charged with heresy, which Roscelin, Abelard, Lombard, and Ockham did not escape.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
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