OCKHAM

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• OCKHAM (noun)
  The noun OCKHAM has 1 sense:

1. English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)

  Familiarity information: OCKHAM used as a noun is very rare.

• OCKHAM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English scholastic philosopher and assumed author of Occam's Razor (1285-1349)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Occam; Ockham; William of Occam; William of Ockham

Instance hypernyms:

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

 Context examples 

Here am I upholding the good fame of the learned Duns Scotus against the foolish quibblings and poor silly reasonings of Willie Ockham.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have read Ockham, Bradwardine, and other of the schoolmen, together with the learned Duns Scotus and the book of the holy Aquinas.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This last argument, however, by no means commended itself to the pupil of Ockham, who plucked a great stick from the ground and signified his dissent by smiting the realist over the pate with it.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)