William Ockham constitutes an excellent initiation for philosophers into the problems and theoretical framework of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. Although her primary focus is on Ockham, McAdams compares and contrasts his positions with those of Aquinas, Scotus, Henry of Ghent, among others. Likewise, Adams rejects the notion that Ockham's philosophical doctrines lead to heretical views in theology, or that his insistence on divine freedom leads to arbitrariness and caprice in ethics. There are a multiplicity of etymologies out there for that most international. Adams challenges the notions that Ockham's nominalism and ontological reductions lead to subjectivism in metaphysics, his epistemology to skepticism, his theory of causality to Humean constant conjunction or to occasionalism. Diddles McGraw, the Viscount Average, Lecturer in Okhamian Poetics. According to Marilyn McCord Adams, Ockham emerges as a Franciscan Aristotelian, much more philosophically and religiously conservative than commonly supposed. It then shows how Ockham's theological disagreements with his most eminent predecessors are a logical consequence of underlying philosophical differences. This landmark study offers a clear and concise account of Ockham's philosophical positions (his ontology, logic, epistemology, and natural philosophy), along with the arguments for them. Yet, with Aquinas and Scotus, he remains among the three greatest philosophers of the period. Accused by John Lutterell, the former chancellor of Oxford University, of teaching heretical doctrines, Ockham was summoned to Avignon by Pope John XXII and eventually lived under the protection of Louis of Bavaria. Myung (eds.William Ockham is probably the most notorious and most widely misunderstood philosopher of the later Middle Ages. Length, MDL and Generalised Bayesian Networks with Asymmetric Languages", ![]() 1347, or apparently 10th April 1349).Ĭomplexity and (its tractable decidable form)Īs operational forms of Occam's razor in practicalĪs an operational form of Occam's razor in practical Unification, Parsimony, and Occam's Razor in Science. University of Wisconsin - Madison Philosophy's "It's the spelling that's stupid - not me", on ``Theories should be as simple as possible, but no simpler.''. The MML trade-off between model simplicity andĪlbert Einstein is often attributed the quotation: MML and Ockham's razor and refines earlier workīy showing that Ockham's razor works fine when interpreted quantitatively as International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (2001), [this article gives a survey and detailed theory re MML, and is also the Computer Journal's most downloaded ``full text asĪs an Effective Ockham's Razor in Decision Tree Induction", Message Length and Kolmogorov complexity", Occam's Razor in Knowledge Discovery", 1999. andĮdited by John Kilcullen, George Knysh, Volker Leppin, John Scott and University, Princeton, NJ, USA, 5 August 2002.įinal version appeared as: Jefferys, W. Parametric Distributions", Tech Rept PUPT-1588, Dept of Physics, Princeton ![]() Balasubramanian, "A Geometric Formulation of Occam's Razor For Inference Of ![]() Tech Rept PUPT-1587, Dept of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA, Razor and Statistical Mechanics on The Space of Probability Distributions", ![]() Balasubramanian, "Statistical Inference, Occam's [See also Ray Solomonoff (1926-2009) 85th memorial Modern-day interpretations and analyses of his We attribute to William the scientific principle known nowadays asīelow are various links about William, quotations attributed to him and
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