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Noun

1. occam, ockham, william of occam, william of ockham

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

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William of. died ?1349, English nominalist philosopher, who contested the temporal power of the papacy and ended the conflict between nominalism and realism

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William of1285?-1349?; Eng. Franciscan nominalist philosopher

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English scholastic philosopher who rejected the reality of universal concepts and argued that mental and linguistic signs are the only genuinely universal features of reality.

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