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.
Western philosophy: William of Ockham. ... 1 is that a plurality is not to be posited without necessity. This principle of economy of thought, later stated as âbeings are not to be multiplied without necessity,â is called âOckhamâs razor.â...