St. Thomas Institute
From doktorsleepless
A secure hospital in Heavenside. A man, thought to be John Reinhardt, is incarcerated in room 23 of this facility.
The Administrator of the Institute is Jerrold Ockham.
Coded Messages
Ockham is where, naturally enough, William of Ockham was from, who formulated what's usually called Occam's Razor.
The St. Thomas Institute is essentially a prison.
It is possibly not unreasonable to interpret, from these things, that Warren is saying that Occam's Razor is a prison, and we will need to multiply entities beyond the minimum necessary to explain observed phenomena in order to arrive at the truth of matters.
The original St. Thomas, also known as Thomas Didymus, was one of the apostles of Jesus. As both Thomas and Didymus literally mean 'twin'[1], there has been speculation that Thomas may have been Jesus' twin brother. Reinhardt appears to have twins of himself...
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