Although a term coined many centuries after his death, which philosopher is famous for his 'razor'?
Occam's razor an irrefutable principle of logic or a scientific result; the preference for simplicity in the scientific method is based on the falsifiability criterion. For each accepted explanation of a phenomenon, there may be an extremely large, perhaps even incomprehensible, number of possible and more complex alternatives. Since one can always burden failing explanations with "ad hoc" hypotheses to prevent them from being falsified, simpler theories are preferable to more complex ones because they are more testable. The term "Occam's razor" did not appear until a few centuries after William of Ockham's death in 1347. Libert Froidmont, in his "On Christian
Occam's razor medieval philosopher and a nominalist. His popular fame as a great logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him and known as Occam's razor. The term "razor" refers to distinguishing between two hypotheses either by "shaving away" unnecessary assumptions or cutting apart two similar conclusions. While it has been claimed that Occam's razor is not found in any of William's writings, one can cite statements such as ("Plurality must never be posited without necessity"), which occurs in his theological work on the "Sentences of Peter Lombard" ("Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi"; ed. Lugd., 1495, i,