Ideas from 'Summa totius logicae' by William of Ockham [1323], by Theme Structure
[found in 'Ockham's Philosophical Writings' by Ockham,William of (ed/tr Boehner,P) [Hackett 1990,0-87220-078-7]].
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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction
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From an impossibility anything follows
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3. Truth / C. Correspondence Truth / 1. Correspondence Truth
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A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing
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3. Truth / G. Axiomatic Truth / 1. Axiomatic Truth
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Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [Halbach]
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5. Theory of Logic / G. Quantification / 1. Quantification
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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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6. Mathematics / C. Sources of Mathematics / 5. Numbers as Adjectival
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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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7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / g. Particular being
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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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8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 1. Nominalism / b. Nominalism about universals
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Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify
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9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 6. Essence as Unifier
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If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible
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19. Language / D. Propositions / 4. Mental Propositions
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Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language
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