Ockham in a sentence

Ockham William of Ockham argued strongly that universals are a product of abstract human thought.

Regulars at the commons will know Ockham Bites, a cafe hidden in the woods, famous for its delicious bacon baps, sweet treats, and hot coffees.

The bus stop on the Portsmouth Road at Ockham Roundabout will be temporarily closed from Friday February 24.

The roads agency continued: “Our improvements will see the A3 widened from three lanes to four in both directions either side of junction 10 to Ockham Park in the south and Painshill in the north.

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.

Just using Ockham's Razor, here.

According to Ockham, universals are just words/names that only exist in the mind and have no real place in the external world.

Although Ockham also expressed willingness to resubmit to the Church and Franciscan Order, there is no evidence of a formal reconciliation.

As a general rule, Ockham argued against assuming any entities that were not necessary for explanations.

A theological commission had been asked to review his Commentary on the Sentences, and it was during this that Ockham found himself involved in a different debate.

Cambridge University Press, 1999: 104. For Ockham, the only truly necessary entity is God; everything else is contingent.

For a discussion of both uses of Occam's razor in biology, see Sober's article "Let's Razor Ockham's Razor" (1990).

For a specific example of MML as Occam's razor in the problem of decision tree induction, see Dowe and Needham's "Message Length as an Effective Ockham's Razor in Decision Tree Induction".

For this reason Ockham has sometimes also been called a "terminist", to distinguish him from a nominalist or a conceptualist.

He cautions: "While Ockham's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology.

However it should be noted that Ockham's philosophy was never officially condemned as heretical.

However, Ockham's commentary was not well received by his colleagues, or by the Church authorities.

However, unlike many theologians of his time, Ockham did not believe God could be logically proven with arguments.

In 1330, Antipope Nicholas V submitted, followed later by the ex-general Michael, and finally, just before his death, by Ockham.

In return for protection and patronage Ockham wrote treatises that argued for emperor Louis to have supreme control over church and state in the Holy Roman Empire.