William of Ockham or Occam OFM (/ˈɒkəm/ OK-əm; Latin: Gulielmus Occamus; c. 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher...

Occam or Ockham may refer to: William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), English friar, philosopher and theologian Ockham's Razor, named after him Byron King-Noel...

parsimony or the law of parsimony (Latin: lex parsimoniae). Attributed to William of Ockham, a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian, it is frequently...

Viscount Ockham (12 May 1836 – 1 September 1862) was a British peer and the eldest of the three legitimate grandchildren of poet Lord Byron. Lord Ockham was...

Twelve Books. p. 119. ASIN B00287KD4Q. [William Ockham] devised a 'principle of economy', popularly known as 'Ockham's razor,' which relied for its effect...

Rolls and feet of fines), Ockham features no high nobles among its owners. However it is the birthplace of William of Ockham, the famous medieval philosopher...

ed. Indianapolis, Indiana: Hackett, 1983. Adams, Marilyn McCord. William of Ockham (2 vols.) Notre Dame, Indiana: Notre Dame University Press, 1987....

Lord Byron, and his wife, Anne Isabella Milbanke. He was created Viscount Ockham and Earl of Lovelace in 1838, and appointed Lord Lieutenant of Surrey in...

course of the book.) William of Ockham, who lived during the time of the novel, first put forward the principle known as "Ockham's Razor", which is often...

medieval period (Robert Grosseteste, Giles of Rome, Duns Scotus and William of Ockham). During the Protestant Reformation, the doctrine of transubstantiation...

reformers. William of Ockham: Ockhamite philosophy influenced Luther and Protestant philosophy. Luther conveyed the ethnical philosophy of Ockham into Protestantism...

theologian. Currently, Wodeham is best known for having been a secretary of William Ockham and for his interpretations of John Duns Scotus. But Wodeham was also...

Ockham Park is a seventeenth-century English country house in Ockham, Surrey. The house is a square two-storey block in red brick with 7 bays on each side...

Britain from 1725 to 1733; as such, in 1725 he was created Baron King of Ockham in the County of Surrey, in the Peerage of Great Britain (verbally and less...

Berman (1977), and were named after William of Ockham by Urquhart (1979). Ockham algebras form a variety. Examples of Ockham algebras include Boolean algebras...

the Lateran Council on 1512, including: Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, William Ockham, Duns Scotus Jewish and Islamic philosophy Medieval theology Scholasticism...

Occamism (or Ockhamism) is the philosophical and theological teaching developed by William of Ockham (1285–1347) and his disciples, which had widespread...

II. John of Rupella – Saint Bonaventure; III. Duns Scotus; Pt. IV. William Ockham, St. Bonaventure, N.Y. : St. Bonaventure University, 1943–1946. Brady...

was that universals are little more than vocal utterances (voces). William of Ockham (1285–1347) wrote extensively on this topic. He argued strongly that...

Aquinas's rationalism was being heatedly debated in the new universities. William Ockham resolved the conflict by arguing that faith and reason should be pursued...

monadic properties. This approach was exemplified by Peter Abelard and William Ockham, who explained relations in terms of non-relational qualities possessed...

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Peter Axel William Locke King, 5th Earl of Lovelace (26 November 1951 – 31 January 2018), styled Viscount Ockham before 1964, was a British peer. Lovelace...

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in...

The Summa Logicae ("Sum of Logic") is a textbook on logic by William of Ockham. It was written around 1323. Systematically, it resembles other works of...

reached their flowering in William of Ockham, who was the most influential and thorough nominalist. Abelard's and Ockham's version of nominalism is sometimes...

playwright and editor Thomas Occleve or Hoccleve (c. 1368–1426), poet William Ockham or Occam (c. 1288 – c. 1348), philosopher, Occam's Razor Sarah Ockwell-Smith...

fourteenth century, from Mirecourt, Lorraine. He was a follower of William of Ockham; he was censured by Pope Clement VI. Very little is known of the life...

with the works and doctrines of fourteenth-century nominalists such as William Ockham, John Buridan, and Marsilius of Inghen, and sometimes gauged these thinkers'...

was strongly influenced by the nominalism of William Ockham's razor. In Martin Luther's opinion Ockham was the only scholastic whose teaching was worth...