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Crossword-Solution: OCCAM 5 letters, 78 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Philosopher who favored simple explanations 1 answer
Razor-wielding philosopher 1 answer
Razor-inventing philosopher 1 answer
Razor man? 1 answer
Philosopher with a razor-sharp mind? 1 answer
Philosopher with a "razor" 1 answer
Philosopher whom historians believe died of the plague 1 answer
Philosopher who posited that the simplest explanation is the most likely one 1 answer
Philosopher who lent his name to a "razor" 1 answer
Philosopher who favored simpler explanations 1 answer
Reasoner with a "razor" 1 answer
Philosopher who espoused simple explanations 1 answer
Philosopher alluded to in "The Name of the Rose" 1 answer
Philosopher William of __, known for his "razor" 1 answer
Noted Franciscan philosopher 1 answer
Noted English philosopher: 14th century 1 answer
Non-shaving razor name? 1 answer
Namesake of a razor you can't shave with 1 answer
Name associated with simple explanations 1 answer
William of ___ (friar with a namesake "razor") 1 answer
___'s razor (principle stating that the simplest explanation is usually the right one) 1 answer
__'s razor: logical principle 1 answer
__'s razor 1 answer
William of ___, known for his "razor" 1 answer
William of ___, English philosopher of 14th century. 1 answer
William of ___ (philosopher with a "razor") 1 answer
William of ___ (philosopher known for his razor) 1 answer
William of ___ (man known for his razor) 1 answer
Name on a philosophical razor 1 answer
William of ___ (English philosopher known for his razor) 1 answer
William of __, logician known for his "razor" 1 answer
William of __, known for his "razor" maxim 1 answer
William of __, for whom a logical "razor" was named 1 answer
William of -- ('razor' philosopher) 1 answer
Whence philosopher William 1 answer
Thinker with a "razor" 1 answer
The "Invincible Doctor" (1270–1349). 1 answer
Name associated with a philosophical "razor" 1 answer
"Law of parsimony" philosopher 1 answer
"The Invincible Doctor," 13th century pupil of Duns Scotus. 1 answer
--'s razor ('keep it simple' maxim) 1 answer
14th-century logician who used the principle of parsimony 1 answer
Big name in scholastic philosophy 1 answer
Certain razor namesake 1 answer
Certain razor's inventor 1 answer
Creator of a logical "razor" 1 answer
Creator of a philosophical "razor" 1 answer
Eponymous 14th-century English philosopher 1 answer
Formulator of the principle of parsimony 1 answer
He had a razor 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with OCCAM (5)

Thomas Aquinas answered that it was necessary, but William Occam and Duns Scotus answered that it was not; that God might have taken the form of a stone, or of a log, or of a beast.
History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom Andrew Dickson White 1996
The thirteenth century produced Thomas Aquinas, and Johannes Duns Scotus, and William Occam, and Roger Bacon.
Thoughts on Man William Godwin 1996
Moreover in his critical views as to the conception of species he had English forerunners; in the middle ages Occam and Duns Scotus, in the eighteenth century Berkeley and Hume.
Darwin and Modern Science A.C. Seward and Others 1999
But no, the woman insists on snatching her share of an education designed by Erasmus or William of Wykeham or William of Occam for the creation of scholars and lawyers; and when later on in her home there is a sudden sickness or accident, and the life or death of those nearest to her hangs upon skill and knowledge and a trained fortitude in emergency, she must needs send in all haste for a hired woman to fill the place that she herself has never learned to occupy.
My Discovery of England Stephen Leacock 2002
Would that it were of books that Occam had written: "Non sunt multiplicandi praeter necessitatem"! The men who produce these unnecessary books perform a necessary function, as things are.
Without Prejudice Israel Zangwill 2004

Quotes with OCCAM (3)

Christian apologists who argue that a story about an empty tomb is convincing evidence of a resurrected body are likely unfamiliar with Occam’s razor, which states that among competing hypotheses, the hypothesis with the fewest assumptions should be selected. They assume that the most likely explanation is miraculous resurrection through some unproven divine connection, but more likely scenarios include a stolen body, a mismarked grave, a planned removal, faulty reports, crea…
David G. McAfee
shave you mind with occam's razor everyday
Paul Grimsley
In order to avoid believing in just one God we are now asked to believe in an infinite number of universes, all of them unobservable just because they are not part of ours. The principle of inference seems to be not Occam's Razor but Occam's Beard: "Multiply entities unnecessarily.
J. Budziszewski What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 73 times in crossword archives (1946–2024).