To use this "razor" named for a 14th century English philosopher means to use economy in explanation
... William of 
Ockham, the most influential philosopher of the fourteenth century, apparently .... 
ontological determination of meaning and truth, but rather as an extreme 
economy of ... whose frequent use by Ockham gained it the name of "Ockham's 
razor," was... [DOC] [TLE] witchcraft facts, information, pictures | Encyclopedia.com articles ... [PAR] Lamothe-Langon's description of huge 14th-century witch trials with ... (The use 
of the word "sabbat," clearly derived from the Jewish Sabbath, ... by means of a 
magic ointment supplied to them by the Devil, and of harming ....