…semantic theory of connotation as a property of terms, originally elaborated by Ockham and others, received an ontological application or re-interpretation in the context of the theory of relations. The main proponent of this ontologized "doctrina de connotatis" seems to have bee…

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…wareness.Thus, dualism creates no explanatory advantage. As such, we should use Ockham’s razor to shave off the spiritual substance, because we ought not to multiply entities beyond what is necessary to explain the phenomena. Descartes’ prodigious doubt notwithstanding, we have e…

…cular human, with colour, shape, and size. Berkeley proposes, as did William of Ockham, that universality is not found in such abstract ideas but in names or notions, mental acts, that signify several particulars together, “by virtue whereof,” he wrote, “it is that things, names,…

…cally assuming that these naturally impossible for example, William of Ockham (c. 1285–1347), conditions were real and arguing accordingly. Gregory of Rimini (c. 1300–1358), Robert Holkot Many De caelo commentaries included a number (c. 1290–1349), Henry of Harclay (c. 1270–1317)…

…l implication has one of its preconditions in late medieval Scholastics, where (Ockham) God was conceived as free creating will, without purposes understandable to humans. In a way, Ockham anticipated Nietzsche – indeed in a more realistic sense – attributing to God a will and a …

…ique des Hautes Études. Volume 18 (forthcoming) is on the thought of William of Ockham, including a 2017 author-meets-critics, panel on Magali Roques’ L'essentialisme de Guillaume d'Ockham. Part I: Acquired Virtues in the Christian? Revisiting the Question The virtue ethics tradi…

…Romans 3:19-26, Eugene Rathbone Fairweather, A Scholastic Miscellany: Anselm to Ockham (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1981). Anselm of Canterbury developed the satisfaction atonement theory in his book Cur Deus homo? as an improvement of ransom theory of the atonement. The the…

… on the Porphyry, the Predicaments, the Perihermeneias and the Elenchi, just as Ockham did in similar circumstances.”9 Alan B. Wolter also suggested that they were completed in the Parisian years, on the evidence of Antonius Andreas, an early Scotist who said his own logical writ…

…human knowledge to angelic knowledge; see his “Why Can’t Angels Think Properly? Ockham against Chatton and Aquinas,” in Angels in Medieval Philosophical Inquiry: Their Function and Signifijicance, ed. Isabel Iribarren and Martin Lenz (Aldershot and Burlington, Vt.: Ashgate, 2008),…

…how in opposition to each other. But many great logicians, including Aristotle, Ockham, Bolzano, De Morgan, and Russell, were capable of incisive contributions to ethics and... more ogic and ethics are too often regarded as separate, if not somehow in opposition to each other. Bu…

…de exemplu, Klaus Hedwig, Über die moderne Rezeption der Intentionalität Thomas-Ockham-Brentano, în Finalité et intentiona- lité: doctrine thomistes et perspectives modernes, Actes du Colloque de Louvain-la-Neuve et Louvain, 21-23 mai 1990, ed. J. Follon et J. Mc Evoy, Paris, 199…

… Recalling History: Descartes, Sense, Mentalese, and Ontology Hume, Reid, Kant, Ockham Jacob Beck Conceptual Distinctions and the Concept Concepts Within the Model of Triangula- of Substance in Descartes tion Alan Nelson Maria Cristina Amoretti The Concept of Body in Hume’s Treat…

…wo Centuries of Historical Debate, ivi, pp. 233-251 (pub- blicato anche in Id., Ockham and Ockhamism. Studies in the Dissemination and Impact of His Thought, Leiden, Boston, Brill, 2008, pp. 1-19); G. Piaia, La «svolta francese» (1800-1820) nell’approccio alla filosofia medievale…

…evelopments in logic and epistemology in this period, in the work of Scotus and Ockham particularly, and we can probably count into this equation Aquinas’ rehabilitation also, constituted “a dramatic shift in the medieval understanding of knowledge”, one marked at its “heart” by …