Ockhamiten.adj.

1652 Mercurius Zeteticus 9 Whether the good works of the Scots Covenanters being faith, and their faith verbotenns, they may not as properly be called nominal Theologues, as the Occamits nominal Philosophers?

1800 Ess. Happiness of Man 32 There was an open and declared war between Nominalists, Realists, Verbalists, Formalists, Thomists, Scotists, and Occamites.

1835 Southern Literary Messenger 1 623/1 Little did they concern themselves with the learned disputes of the Thomists, the Scotists, and the Occamites.

1874 J. H. Blunt Dict. Sects Occamites, the school of English Nominalists, or rather the revivers of Nominalism, who followed William of Occham's lead in the first half of the fourteenth century.

1928 Speculum 3 439 In large part the writings of the Ockhamites of the fourteenth century read as if they were dictated by cautions learned from the experimental sciences and from critical philosophy.

1981 Philos. Rev. 90 443 There is always in Ryle something of the Ockhamite. He wants especially to talk us out of belief in extra entities—as if ontological extravagance in philosophy were like fiscal irresponsibility in government.

1928 Speculum 3 441 A statement of the Ockhamite currents of this period would be incomplete if the philosophic disputes were not balanced by the scientific interests.

1956 Sci. Monthly Feb. 96/2 Galileo's university, Padua,..was also the center of Averroism, which, in the meantime, had felt the impact of the Ockhamite ‘modern way’.

1991 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 10 Nov. 1/3 Since brains are made from the same atoms as everything else, there must be some way to unify mind and matter. The alternative would be to go against the Ockhamite tradition.