William of Occam (or Ockham) was a 14th century English Franciscan monk and philosopher who gave his name to the principal now known as Occam’s razor. This is a well known philosophical principle that has universal application in all fields of problem solving. It states that, given […]
Read more →My name is Marjoribanks. Well, you know that. But you may not know that I (perhaps, perversely) pronounce it in the traditional Scottish way marshbanks, to rhyme with harsh pranks. Now I do not for a moment expect people to know this – any reasonable attempt at […]
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