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Ockhamistic

Ockhamistic adjective: of or pertaining to William of Ockham, 13th-14th century English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher.

Adjective

Ockhamistic (comparative more Ockhamistic, superlative most Ockhamistic)

  1. Of or pertaining to William of Ockham, 13th-14th century English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher.
    • Furthermore, the treatment of determinism in two of Prior's proposed temporal systems, namely the Ockhamistic and Peircean systems, is investigated.2000, Torben Braüner, Per Hasle, and Peter Øhstrøm, "Determinism and the Origins of Temporal Logic", pages 185-206 in Howard Barringer, Michael Fisher, Dov Gabbay, and Graham Gough, editors, Advances...

Forms of Ockhamistic

comparativemore Ockhamistic
superlativemost Ockhamistic

Origin of Ockhamistic

From Ockham + -istic.

Questions about Ockhamistic

What does Ockhamistic mean?
Ockhamistic means of or pertaining to William of Ockham, 13th-14th century English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher.
What part of speech is Ockhamistic?
Ockhamistic is an adjective.

Words near Ockhamistic in the dictionary

  1. Ockham algebra
  2. Ockham algebras
  3. Ockham's razor
  4. Ockhamism
  5. Ockhamist
  6. Ockhamistic
  7. Ockhamists
  8. ockies
  9. Ockler
  10. Ocklers
  11. Ockley

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