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  • proper noun A school of philosophical thought founded by William of Ockham in the fourteenth century.
  • noun A follower of the Ockhamist school of thought.

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Examples

  • This might be called the Ockhamist solution to the problem.

    Fatalism Rice, Hugh 2006

  • This is also the hallmark of what is called the Ockhamist view of divine foreknowledge in contemporary philosophical theology (Zagzebski 1991, 66 “ 97).

    Medieval Theories of Future Contingents Knuuttila, Simo 2006

  • So Albert was not content with merely repeating Ockhamist arguments.

    Albert of Saxony Biard, Joél 2009

  • In the first part of the Perutilis logica, which sets out the terminology of the entire text, Albert returns to the Ockhamist conception of the sign in so doing distances himself from the position defended by Buridan.

    Albert of Saxony Biard, Joél 2009

  • If it is not independently plausible, it is hard to avoid the conclusion that the Ockhamist solution is ad hoc.

    Foreknowledge and Free Will Zagzebski, Linda 2008

  • One of the best-known Ockhamist proposals after Adams was made by Alvin Plantinga (1986), who defined the accidentally necessary in terms of lack of counterfactual power.

    Foreknowledge and Free Will Zagzebski, Linda 2008

  • Rather an Ockhamist, one who realizes that the multiplying of needless distinctions leads one into error.

    Something else I missed ... Frank Wilson 2006

  • We have already discussed the Ockhamist response to this premise, which accepts (2) as applied to what is strictly past, but rejects it as applied to that part of the past that is not wholly or strictly past.

    Foreknowledge and Free Will Zagzebski, Linda 2008

  • Finally, we will consider the possibility that premise (2) can be rejected in a more radical way than the Ockhamist position.

    Foreknowledge and Free Will Zagzebski, Linda 2008

  • This possibility is important for Ockhamist ethics, because Ockham insists that there is (and indeed that there must be) at least one intrinsically good act of will, which he identifies with loving God for his own sake.

    Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

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