William of Occam

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Noun1.William of Occam - English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)William of Occam - English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
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In spite of the philosopher William of Occam's claim regarding truth and simplicity, scientific ideas are not based on simplicity.
God's Planet
If Sir William of Occam were practicing medicine today, I'm sure he would take many patients off all medications and start with a clean slate; if he were playing basketball, he would shoot straight for the hoop, rather than bank off the glass.
Making a case for concise narrative radiology reports
One Franciscan philosopher and theologian, who radically attacked the Aristotelian concept of essences and influenced the development of empirical science and modern philosophy, was William of Occam (1285-1349).
The wisdom of a dunce
If, as Weaver was to assert, "the dissolution of the West" began in the late fourteenth century when Western man made the "evil decision" to accept the nominalism propounded by William of Occam (d.
Plato and the spirit of modernity
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