Re: Re[2]: [tied] Occam's razor

--- "Brian M. Scott" <BMScott@...> wrote:

> AAt 9:15:57 AM on Friday, March 28, 2003, george
> knysh
> wrote:
>
> > Also, for what it's worth, OCKHAM's (ca.
> 1288-1348) name
> > is no longer spelt OCCAM, not even by the French,
> except
> > where the serious literature used pre-dates WWII.
> > Interestingly, the preferred mediaeval English
> spelling
> > was HOKAM ( and then the h was dropped).*******
>
> That's from Ockham in Surrey, right? <Hocham> 1170,
> <Ocham>
> 1291. I'd have guessed that in his lifetime
> spellings with
> inorganic <H> would have been in a minority, unless
> for some
> reason this feature came to be specifically
> associated with
> him.

******GK: I can only go by the evidence of extant
manuscripts of his works (which may not be
conclusive). The fact is that more of those of
indubitably English provenance spell his name with an
"H" than with an "O". Interestingly three of them
expand the reference to "de civitate Hokam /Hocham,
Hoccham/". Continental manuscripts, on the other hand,
prefer "O" over "H" by a wide margin, though a couple
of Munich ones (where he lived from 1330 to the end of
his life) do have "H". In official (papal and
imperial) documents, he's always "O".*******

>
> Brian
>
>
>

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