Ockham
Americannoun
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
Simplicity and parsimony as formulated by Ockham become elegance and truth among Einstein and his contemporaries.
From Salon • Jun. 13, 2021
Monarchia, edited by Goldast of Hanover in 1611, gives a collection of fifteenth-century writers, including Ockham, Cesena, Roselli, &c.
From Mediaeval Socialism by Jarrett, Bede
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