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Ockham

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Ock·ham also Oc·cam  (km), 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.
Ockham, Occam [ˈɒkəm]
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(Biographies / Ockham, William of (death date: ?1349) M, English, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) William of. died ?1349, English nominalist philosopher, who contested the temporal power of the papacy and ended the conflict between nominalism and realism See Ockham's razor
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Noun1.OckhamOckham - English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
Occam, William of Occam, William of Ockham


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As I came through Ockham (for that was the way I returned, and not through Send and Old Woking) I saw along the western horizon a blood-red glow, which as I drew nearer, crept slowly up the sky.
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I have read Ockham, Bradwardine, and other of the schoolmen, together with the learned Duns Scotus and the book of the holy Aquinas.
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