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.
The term Occam's razor first appeared in 1852 in the works of Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788â1856), centuries after William of Ockham 's death in 1347. Ockham did not invent this razorâits association with him may be due to the frequency and effectiveness with which he used it (Ariew 1976).