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.
William of Ockham - Sketch labelled frater Occham iste, from a manuscript of Ockham's Summa Logicae, 1341. William of Ockham (also Occam or any of several other spellings) (c. 1285 â 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is best known for his contributions to nominalism and his principle of parsimony known as Ockham's razor..