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Ockham
[ ok-uhm ]
Ockham
/ ˈɒkəm /
noun
- OckhamWilliam of?1349MEnglishPHILOSOPHY: philosopher William of. died ?1349, English nominalist philosopher, who contested the temporal power of the papacy and ended the conflict between nominalism and realism See Ockham's razor
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The husband and wife fled across the Atlantic in December that year, settling first in Ockham, Surrey, before making their home at 26 Cambridge Grove, a mid-Victorian House in Hammersmith, west London.
Named for 14th-century philosopher William of Ockham, Occam’s razor is the scientific principle that “entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
Ockham's Razor is useful in these situations by challenging research where "everything but the kitchen sink" is tested against one or more outcomes.
The 14th-century Franciscan friar William of Ockham submitted that in order to solve problems, a theorist should begin by cutting away the hypotheses that contain unnecessary complications.
William of Ockham directly challenged the tedious abstraction of medieval philosophy, famously advocating for more efficient and rigorous reasoning à la Ockham's Razor.
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