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- English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)
How To Use William of Ockham In A Sentence
- Emphasis on the omnipotence of God is still more pronounced in the writings of William of Ockham.
- One fine May morning, William of Ockham was skirting the bosky woods, heading for open country in search of early mushrooms when a dragon alighted on the greensward not half a furling from him.
- In the late medieval period, voluntarist theologians such as William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel radically distinguished God's absolute freedom and God's covenant relations.
- Even if Ockham's semantics, as well as his theory of mental language governed by a trans-idiomatic mental grammar transforming the theorems of terminist logic into a theory of thought processes (William of Ockham, Summa log., 1974, 11ff), [46] was by no means undisputed, and came under severe criticism by his opponents as well as no less severe modifications by his ˜followers™. Medieval Semiotics
