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Newspaper Articles on: william ockham

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    The Name of the Rose
    Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, July 27, 2010
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the story of the Franciscan friar William of Baskerville as he tries to solve...all stories, to each other. William of Baskerville, an Englishman...the Baskervilles," but also to William of Ockham, who was responsible for the principle...
     
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    Paperbacks
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), October 1, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    Paperbacks. Byline: WILLIAM LEITH LOVING PETER By Judy Cook with Angela Levin (Piaktus...philosopher you can name. Aquinas had an accident with a tree; William of Ockham died of the Black Death. Sir Thomas More applied his own blindfold...
     
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    GPS Can't Spot Every Disease; Vital Signs
    Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), March 2, 2011
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    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...useful rule of thumb any doctor needs to know. First described by the 14th-century logician and Franciscan friar, William of Ockham, and known as "Occams razor" it suggests that "entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily". A more useful...
     
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    Giving the Lie Its Share of the Credit
    Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, September 23, 2001
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...until the idea of authoritarian "truth" runs up against of a more individually-minded nominalism in the likes of William of Ockham, opening a new fissure in Christian thought. In later pages, the idea of simple truth, as in the rise of evangelicism...
     

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Encyclopedia Articles on: william ockham

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    Ockham, William Of
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    OCKHAM, WILLIAM OF see William of Occam . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
     
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    William of Occam
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...1986); see also E. A. Moody, The Logic of William of Ockham (1935, repr. 1965); A. S. McCrade, The Political Thought of William of Ockham (1974...
     
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    John XXII , Pope
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...assisted by Marsilius of Padua, who in 1324 published his exposition of his theories Defensor pacis, and later by William of Ockham. The emperor invaded Italy and set up (1328) as an antipope Pietro Rainalducci (as Nicholas V). The project...
     
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    Mechanics
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...died out. The impetus school flourished in Paris and elsewhere during the 14th and 15th cent. and included William of Occam (Ockham), Jean Buridan, Albert of Saxony, Nicolas Oresme, and Nicolas of Cusa, although it was never successful...
     

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