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    William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar born in the late 13th century. He developed Ockham's Razor, the principle that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity," preferring simpler explanations over more complex ones. This challenged the philosophical synthesis of faith and reason proposed by Thomas Aquinas. Ockham argued for nominalism over realism and defended empiricism. His principle of parsimony laid the foundation for modern logic and still influences fields like physics and political philosophy today.

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    William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar born in the late 13th century. He developed Ockham's Razor, the principle that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity," preferring simpler explanations over more complex ones. This challenged the philosophical synthesis of faith and reason proposed by Thomas Aquinas. Ockham argued for nominalism over realism and defended empiricism. His principle of parsimony laid the foundation for modern logic and still influences fields like physics and political philosophy today.

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    William of Ockham was an English Franciscan friar born in the late 13th century. He developed Ockham's Razor, the principle that "entities should not be multiplied without necessity," preferring simpler explanations over more complex ones. This challenged the philosophical synthesis of faith and reason proposed by Thomas Aquinas. Ockham argued for nominalism over realism and defended empiricism. His principle of parsimony laid the foundation for modern logic and still influences fields like physics and political philosophy today.

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    William of Ockham

    & THE OCKHAMS RAZOR


    Revianto B. Santosa

    References:
    Gibson, Arthur (2004) Ockhams world and future
    in John Marenbon (ed.) Routledge History of
    Philosophy (Volume III: Medieval Philosophy).
    Routledge. p.329-367.
    Internet Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, entry:
    William of Ockham (Occam, c.1280 c.1349)
    http://www.iep.utm.edu; accessed October 3 ,
    2013.
    Russel, B. (1945) A History Of Western Philosophy
    and Its Connection with Political and Social
    Circumstances from the Earliest Times to the
    Present Day. Simon and Schuster: New York, NY.
    Stanford Encyclopaedia of Philosophy, entry:
    William of Ockham.
    http://plato.stanford.edu /entries/ockham;
    accessed October 3 , 2013.

    Life
    Born in Ockham Oxford (c. 1286 )
    Going to Paris as young Franciscan
    Engaged in conflict with Pope John XII in Avignon
    Excomunicated and hunted by the Pope
    Staying in Munich under the protection of Louis of
    Bavaria (Holy Roman Empire)
    Writing philosophy and politics
    Died in Munich in 1347

    William of
    Ockham
    & THE
    OCKHAMS
    RAZOR

    Ockhams Position
    in Medieval
    Philosophy
    THOMAS
    AQUINAS
    (1224-1274)

    Medieval
    Synthesis
    of faith and
    reason

    WILLIAM OF OCKHAM
    (1280-1349)

    Excluding faith
    from reason

    William of
    Ockham
    & THE
    OCKHAMS
    RAZOR

    Ockhams Razor

    William of
    Ockham
    & THE
    OCKHAMS
    RAZOR

    IF YOU HAVE MORE


    THAN ONE THEORY
    THEN THE
    SIMPLEST IS MORE
    LIKELY TO BE TRUE

    Implications
    Ockhams Razor is a vary simple principles with many
    consequences

    METAPHYSICS
    Ockham champions nominalism, the view that universal essences, such
    as humanity or whiteness, are nothing more than concepts in the mind.
    He develops an Aristotelian ontology, admitting only individual
    substances and qualities.

    EPISTEMOLOGY
    Ockham defends direct realist empiricism, according to which human
    beings perceive objects through intuitive cognition, without the help of
    any innate ideas. These perceptions give rise to all of our abstract
    concepts and provide knowledge of the world.

    LOGIC
    Ockham presents a version of supposition theory to support his
    commitment to mental language. Supposition theory had various
    purposes in medieval logic, one of which was to explain how words bear
    meaning.

    William of
    Ockham
    & THE
    OCKHAMS
    RAZOR

    Legacy
    Ockhams principles lay the foundation of modern
    logic preferrring simplicity and clarity to
    complexity and mystery. In the field of political
    philosophy, Ockham had to wait for more than 600
    years to witness his treatise to be develop into
    modern political discourse. His influence, however
    is lasting. For example, Stephen Hawking in his
    classic exposition of theoretical physics, A Brief
    History of Time, attributes the discovery of
    quantum mechanics to Ockhams Razor.

    William of
    Ockham
    & THE
    OCKHAMS
    RAZOR

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