Occamism

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Occamism

1. the precepts and ideas of William of Occam, 14th-century English Scholastic.
2. support of his precepts. — Occamist, Occamite, n. — Occamistic, adj.

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Luther's "Occamism" was nicely exemplified in the theological theses formulated for his Heidelberg Disputation of April 26, 1518.