Executive function and self-regulation skills are the mental processes that enable us to plan, focus attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks successfully.
William of Ockham (circa 1287â1347) was an English Franciscan friar and theologian, an influential medieval philosopher and a nominalist. His popular fame as a great logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him and known as Ockham's razor.
The best contemporary sources. 1  Gesta Guillelmi II Ducis Normannorum (The Deeds of William II, Duke of the Normans), by William of Poitiers, written between 1071 and 1077. The author was born in about 1020 in Les PrÃ©aux, near Pont-Audemer, and belonged to an influential Norman family.