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William of Occam Quotes


William of Ockham (also Occam, Hockham, or any of several other spellings) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from a place named Ockham in Yorkshire, or possibly Surrey.
(c. 1288 - c. 1348)


It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Plurality should not be posited without necessity.