The hermeneutic called Ockham's Razor is the subject for today's dissection!.    From Wordnik.com.  [DaddyBlogger.com] Reference

The reason that I am not agnostic about gods, invisible pink unicorns etc. is a central scientific principle known as Ockham's razor.    From Wordnik.com.  [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference

Can a strict nominalist such as Ockham really accept quantification over possible beings?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statue of a Writer] Reference

Apparently, 'Ockham' was mulling the same question since in a comment he mentions the Beatle's covered by Joe Cocker in 3 / 4 time.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maverick Philosopher] Reference

'Ockham's razor' - "entities should not be multiplied more than is needed" (in Latin, entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem).    From Wordnik.com.  [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference

Ockham does not speak of ampliation and restriction.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference

As Ockham puts it in his early Commentary on Aristotle's text.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of the Categories] Reference

Apparently, it is enough (in some Ockham analogy with the bandwidth).    From Wordnik.com.  [Science and Unobservable Things] Reference

Ockham is equally clear concerning the discipline that studies categories.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of the Categories] Reference

Ockham also used the concept of despotism to delimit the powers of the papacy.    From Wordnik.com.  [DESPOTISM] Reference

The very idea of natural order appeared to Ockham contrary to divine omnipotence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Ockham joined the Franciscans and protested in favor of “evangelical poverty.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [REFORMATION] Reference

Even if Ockham is right about this, it does seem impossible that there be two gods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Monotheism] Reference

Ockham also eschews talk of ampliation in giving his account of modal propositions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference

There is apparently some doubt as to whether Ockham himself ever put it just this way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

The only distinction Ockham will allow is the real distinction of one thing from another thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

As noted above, this last distinction was elided by Ockham, in removing the universal, the form.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference

For Ockham the goodness of any action lies completely in the will's desire to obey divine commands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Practical Reason] Reference

Erich Hochstetter, Studien zur Metaphysik und Erkenntnis - lehre Wilhelms von Ockham (Berlin, 1927).    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION] Reference

Ockham too is concerned primarily with the preservation of volitional freedom, both divine and human.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Practical Reason] Reference

What is important however, is that Ockham insists that this is the only way to establish causal connection.    From Wordnik.com.  [CAUSATION] Reference

Ockham argues that our experience leads us to posit only two extra-mental categories: substance and quality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of the Categories] Reference

And it continues to receive support in the fourteenth century in the critique of Ockham by Richard of Campsall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

William of Ockham, notably, came up with a whole new philosophy, which is called the new theology, or nominalism.    From Wordnik.com.  [Martin Luther] Reference

Tachau, K.H. (1988), Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham, Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Crathorn] Reference

Voluntarism, emphasis upon God's will rather than his intellect, appeared in John Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, and others.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

The proposition is ambiguous, in one sense self-contradictory, in the other true, Ockham notes (Summa Logicae II 10), because.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference

"Doctors"; Scot, Bacon, Ockham, Bradwardine, &c. -- Gaddesden the physician -- Bartholomew the encyclopædist -- Roman law and.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference

"At its current price level, eBay is 64% below its average level of price to cash earnings on a historical basis," states Ockham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time To Bid On EBay] Reference

Walter Burleigh, William of Ockham and their followers could then define the three modes of common personal supposition as follows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms] Reference

John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham, were especially critical of a theory which they considered too restrictive of human freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Medieval Theories of Practical Reason] Reference

Ockham, Marsilius of Padua, Eckhart, and Wycliffe in the fourteenth century, to mention only a few of the more outstanding examples.    From Wordnik.com.  [HERESY IN THE MIDDLE AGES] Reference

Consequently, Ockham cannot recognize as sources of civil law any other laws than the expression of the will, and no longer of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

Thus Ockham, as Vignaux observed, adopted the principle, much later exploited by Hume, that what - ever is distinguishable is separable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

For Ockham, only individ - uals exist; man as an abstract category is a creation of the mind — such is his essentially nominalist thesis.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference