... not just in metaphysics but in all major areas of medieval philosophy: logic, natural philosophy, theory of knowledge, ethics, and political philosophy, as well as in theology. His logical criticisms shook the foundations of Scholasticism, and the dialects of the following centuries revolved around the problems, which he had raised. Who is William of Ockham? Ockham was born, probably in late 1287 or early ... 1288, in the village of Ockham in Surrey, a little to the southwest of London. He probably learned basic Latin at a village school in ... had taken the initial steps in the theolog...

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... . A second and decisive development, by which nature is secularised, neutralised, is found at the beginning of the hegemony of the conceptual-nominalistic tradition in Western philosophy and theology. Now, according to William Ockham, real science belongs only to the domain of terms or concepts, which stand for the real thing 'in rerum natura'. Theologically speaking God's will ... knowledge is only temporary, each (historical) state of affairs concerning natural knowledge and natural science is a promise of better understanding in the future. The epistemological process gets an endless o...

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... Ingredient mean that which make what a thing is. Being an ingredient means to be necessarily present in the thing. Body and soul is an example of ingredients of the human person; a flour for bread; and a lens for camera. On the other hand condiment means like a seasoning or something that is used ... . I am immanent in the essence of God. He works through me. As I return to God in the mystic experience, I become one with God again." William of Ockham was known by his principle of simplicity which was called "Ockham's Razor". He was challenged by the issue of faith and reason. He believed...

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... as the waves? The argument of the fallen tree in the forest only discusses the air waves; sound on the other hand is referred to as something physically heard. The "sound itself is the result of the physical and physiological processes initiated by the fallen tree" (Landesman, 18). One philosopher that had a theory on this issue is William Ockham. His theory is referred to ... as the Ockham razor. He said, "entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity". Ockham stated we should not include objective sound at all. By doing ... this we are making things simpler and his reasoning for...

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... race and skew their sensory perception. In everything Descartes goes through, it is clear that he uses a methodological and rational way of doubting the things that he does not know if he truly believes. He provides significant reasons as to why he doubts each ... then by the end of the book Descartes can truly see that some of his skepticism was not in fact rational, and so he says that "the hyperbolic doubts of the last few days ought to be rejected as ludicrous" (Meditations 89; pg. 58). William of Ockham once said "do not ... multiply entities without good and sufficient reason". In...

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... V, and Benedict XIII "and more than 60 cardinals have belonged to the order. Apart from their specific work, the Dominicans have done much to aid and foster the development of art. Their cloisters have produced such distinguished painters as Fra Angelico and Fra Bartolommeo. Their contributions to literature have been chiefly in theology and philosophy, and they have produced outstanding ... writers such as St Thomas Aquinas and St Albertus Magnus. The important medieval encyclopedia Speculum Majus was the work of a Dominican, Vincent of Beauvais. Other Dominicans were the German mystics...

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