William of Ockham
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| '''William of Ockham''' (also '''Occam''', '''Hockham''', or any of several other spellings, (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an [[England|English]] [[Franciscan]] [[friar]] and [[Scholasticism|scholastic]] [[philosopher]], from [[Ockham, Surrey|Ockham]], a small village in [[Surrey]], near [[East Horsley]]. He is considered — along with [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Duns Scotus]], and the Islamic scholar [[Averroes]] — to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. Although commonly known for [[Occam's razor]], the methodological principle that bears his name, William of Ockham also produced significant works on [[logic]], [[physics]], and [[theology]]. In the [[Church of England]], his day of commemoration is 10 April. | '''William of Ockham''' (also '''Occam''', '''Hockham''', or any of several other spellings, (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an [[England|English]] [[Franciscan]] [[friar]] and [[Scholasticism|scholastic]] [[philosopher]], from [[Ockham, Surrey|Ockham]], a small village in [[Surrey]], near [[East Horsley]]. He is considered — along with [[Thomas Aquinas]], [[Duns Scotus]], and the Islamic scholar [[Averroes]] — to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. Although commonly known for [[Occam's razor]], the methodological principle that bears his name, William of Ockham also produced significant works on [[logic]], [[physics]], and [[theology]]. In the [[Church of England]], his day of commemoration is 10 April. | ||
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"George Henry Lewes has observed that the only medieval debate of any philosophical value is the debate between nominalism and realism. This opinion is rather temerarious, but it emphasizes the importance of the persistent controversy provoked at the beginning of the ninth century by a sentence from Porphyry, which Boethius translated and annotated: a controversy that Anselm and Roscellinus continued at the end of the eleventh century and that William of Occam reanimated in the fourteenth." --Jorge Luis Borges , "From Allegories to Novels" |
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William of Ockham (also Occam, Hockham, or any of several other spellings, (c. 1288 - c. 1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. He is considered — along with Thomas Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and the Islamic scholar Averroes — to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century. Although commonly known for Occam's razor, the methodological principle that bears his name, William of Ockham also produced significant works on logic, physics, and theology. In the Church of England, his day of commemoration is 10 April.
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