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plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham The English Scholastic William of Ockham (1287-1347) had stated that one should never assume more entities than necessary. This principle became known as Occam’s razor. Mach had adored it, for it epitomized the economy of thought that he had always sought. Hahn, too embraced the principle, and put it to work in his essay. Superfluous, he said, are all the “shadowy half-beings” encumbering our brain, such as universals, empty space, empty time, substance, Thing-in-itself, the beyond, and of course gods and demons. Away with them all” wrote Hans Hahn ~Page 150