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1347 munich , bavaria , holy roman empire medieval wycliffe science , willard van orman quine , john medieval philosophy ockham , surrey , england scholasticism aristotle , petrus aureolus , durandus of saint-pourçain , aquinas , duns scotus , peter abelard metaphysics , politics , epistemology , theology , logic , ontology occam 's razor , nominalism roman catholicism 1285 william of ockham.png william of ockham
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william of ockham

william of ockham -lrb- ; also occam , from ; 1287 -- 1347 -rrb- was an english franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian , who is believed to have been born in ockham , a small village in surrey .
he is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century .
he is commonly known for occam 's razor , the methodological principle that bears his name , and also produced significant works on logic , physics , and theology .
in the church of england , his day of commemoration is 10 april .
