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24 September 2010

William of Ockham...

He believed that the truths of faith are not self- evident, nor are demonstrable, nor even probable; therefore, theology is not considered as a science, for its based faith and lacks coherence.

He thought that there is any intermediary between the perceiver and the world.

Ockham’s razor: denial to create non real beings to explain reality.

He created the Nominalism: theres is a perfect  relation between the name and the object.
Examples:
o   God is not an object so it must not be named.
o   Love has a physical prove so it can be named

Knowledge starts from particular objects. Necessity and universality are mere assumptions.
He believed that REASON obtains knowledge through experience, which can be of 2 types:
Complex and Uncomplex (divided in intuitive, experimental and abstractive) He thought that it was better to look for the simple explanations because it made no sense looking for the complex ones. 





Example: THERE IS A CAT SLEEPING NEXT TO A BABY


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