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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Ockham, William of 1285?-1349? English scholastic philosopher who rejected the reality of universal concepts and argued that mental and linguistic signs are the only genuinely universal features of reality.
WordNet 3.0
- n. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
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“Let me get to the point: Præter necessitate in your definition of Ockham’s razor, entia non sunt multiplicanda præter necessitate, is incorrect.”
““Philosophers and historians are generally puzzled as to why the principle of parsimony should be called Ockham’s Razor,” writes a trio of chemists in Hyle, a philosophy quarterly published by the University of Karlsruhe, in Germany.”
“Fabian, Mr.. Fabian, Mr. Douglasall of you say youdon't know this man who was murdered here last night, never heard the name Ockham before.”
“In the case of Ockham, by contrast, the appeal to parsimony is much more explicit, often taking the form of what has come to be known as Ockham's razor: “Plurality should not be assumed without necessity” (Ordinatio I, d. 30, q. 2 in Opera Theologica iv, 322).”
“The reason that I am not agnostic about gods, invisible pink unicorns etc. is a central scientific principle known as Ockham's razor.”
“The hermeneutic called Ockham's Razor is the subject for today's dissection!”
“There is a principle called Ockham's razor which is attributed to the 14th-century English logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham.”
“As reductive realists such as Ockham often point out, this fact about relational change admits of a ready explanation on their position, since Socrates's relation is nothing over and above Simmias's and Socrates's heights, the latter of which never changes.”
“Can a strict nominalist such as Ockham really accept quantification over possible beings?”
“Let us, however, have a look at the proof method using the expository syllogism that medieval logicians such as Ockham seem to have preferred over Aristotle's cumbersome method of ekthesis.”
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