William of Ockham was a 14th-century English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher. He is best known for his principle of parsimony, known as Ockham's razor, which states that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. O
William of Ockham was a 14th-century English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher. He is best known for his principle of parsimony, known as Ockham's razor, which states that the simplest explanation is usually the correct one. O