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

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

named after William of Ockham by Urquhart (1979). Ockham algebras form a variety. Examples of Ockham algebras include Boolean algebras, De Morgan algebras...

Ockham), while the 3rd Earl and his wife Edith († 1932), the 4th Earl and his wife Doris († 1940) as well as the Lovelace daughters Lady Diana de Hosszu...

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...

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

the 14th century, William of Ockham wrote down the words that would result by reading the laws out. Jean Buridan, in his Summulae de Dialectica, also describes...

September 1862, upon the death of his elder brother, Byron Noel, Viscount Ockham – who had succeeded his grandmother, Lady Byron, as twelfth Baron Wentworth...

Gulielmi Ockham (William of Ockham, ca. 1285-ca. 1349.) Expositionis in libros artis logicae prooemium; et, Expositio in librum Porphyril De praedicabilibus...

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...

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...

then continuing with writers such as Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham and Anselm of Canterbury during Scholasticism. Blaise Pascal was an...

under his protection, including Michael of Cesena and the philosopher William of Ockham, an advocate of an early form of church and state separation. In 1326...

infallibility, was not promulgated until the First Vatican Council of 1870. William of Ockham (d. 1349) wrote some of the earliest documents outlining the basic...

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

William of Exeter was a fourteenth-century English author. William was the author of certain ‘Determinationes’ against Ockham, ‘De Mendicitate, contra...

to the nominalist position in the problem of universals, taken by William of Ockham. According to nominalism, universals are bare names: there is not...

Scotland William Wallace (c.  1270–1305), Scottish general and one of the main leaders during the Wars of Scottish Independence William of Ockham (1287–1347)...

entertaining". The company's name derives from a philosophy of William of Ockham known as Ockham's Razor that states that the simplest theory should always...

William Lane Craig (born August 23, 1949) is an American analytic philosopher, Christian apologist, author, and Wesleyan theologian who upholds the view...

Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, TOSD (French pronunciation: [lwi maʁi ɡʁiɲɔ̃ də mɔ̃fɔʁ]; 31 January 1673 – 28 April 1716) was a French Catholic priest...

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...

the High Middle Ages, together with Thomas Aquinas, Bonaventure and William of Ockham. Duns Scotus has had considerable influence on both Catholic and secular...

logic such as Lorenzen games, Hintikka games and game semantics. William of Ockham said Obligationes: ...consists of this that in the beginning some...

Kilvington, Walter Burley, William Heytesbury, and William of Ockham. Medieval philosophy of mind is based on Aristotle's De Anima, another work discovered...

strong influence by William of Ockham, whose commentaries on the logica vetus (i. e. on Porphyry, and Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione) were...

concerned, he held to realism as opposed to the nominalism advanced by William of Ockham. A number of Wycliffe's ideas have been carried forward in the twentieth...

Eerdmans; 1974. Plantinga, Alvin (1986). l. Peterson, Michael (ed.). "On Ockham's Way Out" (PDF). Faith and Philosophy. 3 (3): 235–69. doi:10.5840/faithphil19863322...

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

Martineau who arranged for their intensive schooling at the village school in Ockham, Surrey. Having learned to read and write, Ellen Craft published the following...