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William of Ockham or Occam OFM (/ ˈ ɒ k əm / OK-əm; Latin: Gulielmus Occamus; [9] [10] c. 1287 – 10 April 1347) was an English Franciscan friar, scholastic philosopher, apologist, and Catholic theologian, who is believed to have been born in Ockham, a small village in Surrey. [11]
Aug 16, 2002 · William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347) is, along with Thomas Aquinas and John Duns Scotus, among the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy during the High Middle Ages. He is probably best known today for his espousal of metaphysical nominalism; indeed, the methodological principle known as “Ockham’s Razor” is named after him.
- Paul Vincent Spade, Claude Panaccio
- 2002
William of Ockham (born c. 1285, Ockham, Surrey?, Eng.—died 1347/49, Munich, Bavaria [now in Germany]) was a Franciscan philosopher, theologian, and political writer, a late scholastic thinker regarded as the founder of a form of nominalism —the school of thought that denies that universal concepts such as “father” have any reality apart from th...
William of Ockham, also known as William Ockham and William of Occam, was a fourteenth-century English philosopher. Historically, Ockham has been cast as the outstanding opponent of Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274): Aquinas perfected the great “medieval synthesis” of faith and reason and was canonized by the Catholic Church; Ockham destroyed the ...
William of Ockham, or William of Occam, (born c. 1285, Ockham, Surrey?, Eng.—died 1347/49, Munich, Bavaria), English Franciscan philosopher, theologian, and political writer.
William of Ockham ( circa 1287–1347) was an English Franciscan friar and theologian, an influential medieval philosopher and a nominalist. His popular fame as a great logician rests chiefly on the maxim attributed to him and known as Occam's razor.
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Oct 30, 2019 · William of Ockham (b. c. 1287–d. 1347) is one of the giants of medieval philosophy. He was an innovative and controversial thinker who lived an extraordinarily eventful life.