Ockhamisticadj.

1895 H. Rashdall Universities of Europe in Middle Ages II. ii. xii. 535/2 Certain extreme Ockhamistic articles were, indeed, condemned at Oxford in 1314.

1901 C. S. Peirce in Proc. Amer. Philo. Soc. (1947) 91 226/2 Others, seeing that ‘laws of nature’ were talked about, and well knowing that no Hobbes or other strict Ockhamist could endure such a phrase, were probably blinded by it to the fact that Hume’s argument could have no standing except upon Ockhamistic ground.

1938 Jrnl. Philos. 35 37 Relativism and subjectivism both have a certain Occamistic plausibility as long as they admit as principles only easily verified facts—as pleasure, liking, interest.

1992 Isis 83 93 Galileo's special debt to his medieval predecessors was much more to those of a Thomistic, realistic turn of mind in questions of scientific methodology than to those of an Ockhamistic, positivistic view.