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William of Ockham

William of Ockham. Lived from 1280 to 1349 Born in the town of Ockham in Surrey, England Member of Franciscan order Studied theology at Oxford Awesome with logic. Background on Ockham. Universals : a common name for objects or things, like “redness” or “wealth”

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William of Ockham

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  1. William of Ockham

  2. Lived from 1280 to 1349 Born in the town of Ockham in Surrey, England Member of Franciscan order Studied theology at Oxford Awesome with logic Background on Ockham

  3. Universals: a common name for objects or things, like “redness” or “wealth” Metaphysical: beyond the physical realm Nominalism: theory of mind and language; universals are just names for convenient categorizations of the world for realistic interaction with them Empiricism: true knowledge only comes through the senses A few definitions…

  4. “The concept of the living thing subsumed under intuition is the animal. For since this subsumption itself is one-sided, not intuition subsumed under the concept in the like way over again, life here is an empirically real, infinitely dispersed life, displaying itself in the most manifold forms. For the form or the absolute concept is not itself unity or universality again. Thus here there is an individuality without intelligence, not, as in the case of the plant, where each unit of the individual is itself a mass of such units; on the contrary, here there is indifference in more extended difference and distinction.” -Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

  5. Ockham was all about Simplicity

  6. Way of thinking that would guide empiricists in the future and influence the scientific method • “Plurality is not to be assumed without necessity”, “Do not multiply entities beyond necessity” Ockham’s Razor The simple over the complicated

  7. How a watch works Examples of the Razor

  8. Mom’s not home Examples of the Razor

  9. Many thought he was trying to do away with the Trinity ACTUALLY, he was trying to eliminate metaphysics and prevent any limits to be set on God’s true power His thoughts strengthened theology: prevented metaphysical ideas Razor cont’d

  10. The only trustworthy knowledge available to man was revealed knowledge or knowledge acquired through the senses Therefore, there’s no such thing as the metaphysical His empiricism

  11. His logic went against Aristotle and his “formal and final causes” He wanted a mechanistic view of causality: parts affecting parts, like a machine Disallowed traditional proofs of God’s existence More of His philosophy

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