Franciscan Logician
William of Ockham
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An English Franciscan friar and logician who held that only individual things exist and that general terms are names. His preference for simpler explanations became known as Ockham’s razor.
Key work: Summa Logicae (c. 1323)
“Plurality must never be posited without necessity.”
Key ideas, in brief (in our words)
Do not posit more things than you need.
General words are names, not things in the world.
Only individual things exist.
Read more: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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