William of Ockham or Occam OFM (/ˈɒkəm/ OK-əm; Latin: Gulielmus Occamus; 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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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 skeptical cause." The name refers to Ockham's razor, formulated by English philosopher William of Ockham (c. 1285–1347). The trophies, designed by...

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

that Jesus, not the pope, is the only head of the Catholic Church. William of Ockham (d. 1349) wrote some of the earliest documents outlining the basic...

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)...

of Ockham. After his death in 1734, the widowed Lady King lived in Grosvenor Square until her death in 1767. In 1835 his great-great-grandson William King...

The Ockham New Zealand Book Awards are literary awards presented annually in New Zealand. The awards began in 1996 as the merger of two literary awards...

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

Francis de Sales, C.O., O.M. (French: François de Sales; Italian: Francesco di Sales; 21 August 1567 – 28 December 1622) was a Savoyard Catholic prelate...

William of Ockham to his cause. Several prelates and princes wrote to the pope on Cesena's behalf. In the following year, Michael of Cesena, William of...

William Godwin (3 March 1756 – 7 April 1836) was an English journalist, political philosopher and novelist. He is considered one of the first exponents...

a clerical courtier in England and Avignon. Burley disagreed with William of Ockham on a number of points concerning logic and natural philosophy. He...

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...

part an extension of William of Ockham's commentaries on the logica vetus (i. e. on Porphyry, and Aristotle's Categoriae and De interpretatione) which...

astronomer, alchemist and philosopher John Peckham (1230–1292), astronomer William Ockham (1287–1347), theologian, philosopher and physicist Richard of Wallingford...