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3 days ago · What is Occam’s Razor Law? Occam’s Razor in UX design calls for simplicity and minimalism. Other strategies include planned obsolescence and product creep. Established by William of Ockham, this principle posits the value of simplicity when you must decide between several answers.
21 hours ago · Occam's Razor, a principle attributed to the 14th-century logician and Franciscan friar William of Ockham, posits that among competing hypotheses that predict equally well, the one with the fewest ...
3 days ago · Along the way, the reader certainly encounters the ‘usual suspects’ one would expect to find in a survey: Dante, Marsilius of Padua, William of Ockham and so on. And yet this is a book with a broader point. Canning has already written an excellent textbook ; this is a very different beast. That each chapter contributes to an overall ...
3 days ago · University of Oxford, English autonomous institution of higher learning at Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, one of the world’s great universities. It lies along the upper course of the River Thames (called by Oxonians the Isis), 50 miles (80 km) north-northwest of London .
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3 days ago · While the Franciscans sought to keep balance, later thinkers (think William of Ockham) did not, leading to the philosophy of nominalism, which so accentuated divine omnipotence that there was ultimately no reason (at least that you could discern) why God did what he did.
2 days ago · Although the Greek word despotes (known principally from Aristotle’s Politics) and its Latin cognate despoticus were familiar to Italian writers by the 14th century, and were used by William of Ockham and Marsilius of Padua, Kohl observes that term ‘despot’ – with its connotation of dominion over slaves – was never used to describe ...
1 day ago · Different early expressions of empiricism and the scientific method can be found throughout history, for instance with the ancient Stoics, Epicurus, Alhazen, Avicenna, Al-Biruni, Roger Bacon, and William of Ockham.
