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Ideas of William of Ockham, by Text
[English, 1287 - 1347, Born in Ockham, Surrey. Ended up at the court of Bavaria. Franciscan. Died in Munich.]
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Commentary on the Sentences
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IV.13
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p.693
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16792
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If parts change, the whole changes
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DII Qviii prima redactio
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p.41
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9103
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A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind
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DII Qviii prima redactio
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p.41
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9104
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A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing
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1320
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Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents
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7.1
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p.225
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16654
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Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there
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1320
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Prologue to Ordinatio
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Q 1 N sqq
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p.18
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9100
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Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true
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Q 1 N sqq
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p.22
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9101
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Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars
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1320
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Summula philosophiae naturalis
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p.66
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16599
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Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity [Pasnau]
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p.86
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16608
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Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories [Pasnau]
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I.13
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p.303
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16681
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Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion
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1323
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Summa totius logicae
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p.15
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16300
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Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [Halbach]
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p.55
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15388
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Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify
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I.c.i
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p.47
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9105
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Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language
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I.c.iv
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p.51
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9106
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The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men
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I.c.xliv
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p.138
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9113
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Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things
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II.c.ii
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p.76
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9107
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A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing
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III,II,c,xxvii
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p.93
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9110
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The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb
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III,II,c,xxvii
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p.93
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9109
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If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible
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III.c.xxxvi
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p.88
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9108
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From an impossibility anything follows
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1323
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Tractatus de corpore Christi
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Ch. 12
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p.289
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16675
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Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another
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Ch. 29
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p.290
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16676
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Why use more things when fewer will do?
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III Q viii
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p.107
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9111
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God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good
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III Q viii
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p.112
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9112
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We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures
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I Q x
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p.142
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9114
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There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience
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I Q xiii
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p.30
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9102
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If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance
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III Q xiii
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p.147
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9115
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To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved
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III.6
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p.561
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16757
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Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water
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IV.19
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p.611
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16779
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Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects
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VI q.25
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p.135
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18529
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Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept
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p.
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6806
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Do not multiply entities beyond necessity
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p.119
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8010
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William of Ockham is the main spokesman for God's commands being the source of morality
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p.295
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16679
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Even an angel must have some location [Pasnau]
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p.1056
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22132
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Species and genera are individual concepts which naturally signify many individuals
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6:496
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p.146
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19381
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The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist
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1340
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Expositio super viii libros
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Prologue
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p.3
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9089
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Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul
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Prologue
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p.4
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9090
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Knowledge is certain cognition of something that is true
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Prologue
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p.5
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9091
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Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration
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