* Ockham's Razor Theatre Company, an aerial theatre company

" See " Ockham's Razor and Chatton's Anti-Razor " ( 1984 ) by Armand Maurer.

* Ockham's Razor, an essay at The Galilean Library on the historical and philosophical implications by Paul Newall.

* ABC Radio International program ( Ockham's Razor ) on Thomas Young – available for download and streaming ( as of 9 July 2006 )

Robyn Williams AM ( born 1944, Buckinghamshire, England ) is a science journalist and broadcaster resident in Australia who has hosted the Science Show on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation since 1975, Ockham's Razor ( created 1984 ) and In Conversation ( created 1997 ).

Ockham's Razor ( 15 minute format ) followed in 1984, with Williams introducing a leading scientist or personality who then expounds from a prepared text on a topic of their choice, with a view to making a subject simple and accessible to the public, hence the title relating to the famous statement on parsimony by William of Ockham.

* Sweating Fever Dr Jim Leavesley commemorates the 500th anniversary of the first outbreak-transcript of talk on Ockham's Razor ABC Radio National

William of Ockham helped to fuse Latin, Greek and Islamic writing into a general theory of logic ; " Ockham's Razor " was one of his oft-cited conclusions.

" Efficient Convergence Implies Ockham's Razor ", Proceedings of the 2002 International Workshop on Computational Models of Scientific Reasoning and Applications, Las Vegas, USA, June 24-27, 2002.

" Justification as Truth-finding Efficiency: How Ockham's Razor Works ", Minds and Machines 14: 2004, pp. 485-505.

William of Ockham, who lived during the time of the novel, first put forward the principle known as " Ockham's Razor ": often summarised as the dictum that one should always accept as most likely the simplest explanation that accounts for all the facts ( a method used by William of Baskerville in the novel ), which William applies in a manner analogous to that in which Sherlock Holmes applies his familiar ( and arguably related ) dictum that when one has eliminated the impossible, whatever remains – however improbable – must be the truth.

* Episode of In Our Time ( May 2007 ), " Ockham's Razor.

Nominalists often argue for their view by claiming that nominalism can account for all the relevant phenomena, and therefore — by Ockham's razor or some sort of principle of simplicity — nominalism is preferable, since it posits fewer entities.

However, Ockham's commentary was not well received by his colleagues, or by the church authorities.

Among the many difficulties that arise in trying to apply Ockham's razor is the problem of formalizing and quantifying the " measure of simplicity " that is implied by the task of deciding which of several theories is the simplest.

* Ockham's Theory of Terms: Part I of the Summa Logicae, translated and introduced by Michael J. Loux, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1974.

* Ockham's Theory of Propositions: Part II of the Summa Logicae, translated by Alfred J. Freddoso and Henry Schuurman and introduced by Alfred J. Freddoso, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, IN, 1980.

One of his points is that spiritual teachers should have high standards of moral conduct and that followers of gurus should interpret the behavior of a spiritual teacher by following Ockham's razor and by using common sense, and, should not naively use mystical explanations unnecessarily to explain immoral behavior.

Styles of Beyond released a mixtape on July 31, 2007, entitled Razor Tag, presented and mixed by DJ Green Lantern.

* Franklin's impact on medicine — talk by medical historian, Dr. Jim Leavesley celebrating the 300th anniversary of Franklin's birth on Okham's Razor ABC Radio National — December 2006

Thus there is no way of discerning which, if any, ethical properties exist ; by Occam's Razor, the simplest assumption is that none do.

The guillotine ( called the " National Razor ") became the symbol of the revolutionary cause, strengthened by a string of executions: Marie Antoinette, King Louis XVI, the Girondins, Philippe Égalité ( Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans ), and Madame Roland, as well as many others, such as pioneering chemist Antoine Lavoisier, lost their lives under its blade.

* The Myth of Occam's Razor by William M. Thorburn ( 1918 )

This endless supply of elaborate competing explanations cannot be ruled out – but by using Occam's Razor.

There have been other attempts to derive Occam's Razor from probability theory, notable attempts made by Harold Jeffreys and E. T. Jaynes.

* The Razor in the Toolbox: The history, use, and abuse of Occam ’ s razor, by Robert Novella

The quick reaction force ( QRF ) consisted of 19 Rangers, a Tactical Air Control Party ( Tacp ), and a three-man USAF special tactics team carried by two Chinooks, Razor 01 and Razor 02.

" Heinlein's Razor " has since been defined as variations on Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice.

The process of combining the core wire with the steel tape was invented by the current owner of Razor Wire International, Renne Cano.

The Razor ’ s Edge is a book by W. Somerset Maugham published in 1944.

The Razor ’ s Edge tells the story of Larry Darrell, an American pilot traumatized by his experiences in World War I, who sets off in search of some transcendent meaning in his life.

Double-edge razors are currently readily available and are manufactured by Merkur in Germany, Edwin Jagger in Great Britain, Kiwishaver in New Zealand, Parker in India, Feather in Japan, Hart Steel and Weber Razor in the United States and Weishi in China.

Razor burn is an irritation of the skin caused by using a blunt blade or not using proper technique.

Glassen argued that, because it is not a physical entity, Occam's Razor cannot consistently be appealed to by a physicalist or materialist as a justification of mental states or events, such as the belief that dualism is false.

On the surface both of these theories expressly violate Occam's Razor ; proponents counter that in fact these solutions minimize entities by simplifying the rules that would be required to describe the universe.

The time capsule was a tube containing writings by Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann, copies of Life Magazine, a Mickey Mouse watch, a Gillette Safety Razor, a kewpie doll, a dollar in change, a pack of Camel cigarettes, millions of pages of text on microfilm, and much more.

Minimum message length ( MML ) is a formal information theory restatement of Occam's Razor: even when models are not equal in goodness of fit accuracy to the observed data, the one generating the shortest overall message is more likely to be correct ( where the message consists of a statement of the model, followed by a statement of data encoded concisely using that model ).

His first WWF match was against Nikolai Volkoff on May 23, 1994, which he lost by submission He wrestled sporadically throughout 1994 in the WWF, losing matches against Crush, Razor Ramon, Owen Hart and The Undertaker.

Her Epic, RCA and EMI albums have long been out of print and have only recently attracted the attention of specialist reissue labels, but a Best Of album titled Transformation was released in 1999 by Razor & Tie.

Through user contribution, Razor establishes a distributed and constantly updating catalogue of spam in propagation that is consulted by email clients to filter out known spam.

Williams soon secured a licensing-and-distribution deal for Burning Field with Razor and Tie, and in 1995 reissued the album on that label, with two re-recorded bonus tracks.

* Cry Cry Cry ( Razor & Tie, 1998 ), with Dar Williams and Lucy Kaplansky