How To Use Ockham In A Sentence
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Even if Ockham's semantics, as well as his theory of mental language governed by a trans-idiomatic mental grammar transforming the theorems of terminist logic into a theory of thought processes (William of Ockham, Summa log., 1974, 11ff), [46] was by no means undisputed, and came under severe criticism by his opponents as well as no less severe modifications by his ˜followers™.
Medieval Semiotics
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Dalton had used Ockham's Razor to assume elemental gases were monatomic.
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The quiet village of Brockhampton was an unlikely setting for such a crime.
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Ockham, for example, treated the former as philosophically incom - prehensible and religiously believable only on the basis of a special mode of knowing; the great Arab thinkers in Spain, especially the Averroists, raised doubts about personal immortality which were not without influence in the Christian West.
Dictionary of the History of Ideas
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The quiet village of Brockhampton was an unlikely setting for such a crime.
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As Ockham would put it: Monks and nuns usually live in abbeys and friars in friaries, though some are in priories.
No Uncertain Terms
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Likewise, in a famous passage, Buridan is driven by his own experience to reject Ockham's explanation of condensation and rarefaction as kinds of locomotion.
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Ockham also eschews talk of ampliation in giving his account of modal propositions.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms
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What united Ockham and his terminist predecessors was their realization that if the proposition ˜Man is a species™ is to be true, then the term ˜man™ cannot supposit personally for any of the individual men it ultimately signifies, since it cannot be said of any of them that he is a species (Socrates is a man, not a species).
John Buridan
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The quiet village of Brockhampton was an unlikely setting for such a crime.
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It is set off the main road from London to Portsmouth, the naval town on the south coast, and nowadays the intersection of this road and the London orbital motorway lies in Ockham Wood.
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The quiet village of Brockhampton was an unlikely setting for such a crime.
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Emphasis on the omnipotence of God is still more pronounced in the writings of William of Ockham.
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In the late medieval period, voluntarist theologians such as William of Ockham and Gabriel Biel radically distinguished God's absolute freedom and God's covenant relations.
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I accept the sneer with pleasure, as I would an honorary degree in roach control from the University of … well, Ockham.
April « 2008 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
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The quiet village of Brockhampton was an unlikely setting for such a crime.
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In the text I prefer “valuing” for this act of the Will distinguishable from pleasure and arguably antecedent to and dissociable from it, as on Ockham's own view.
Pleasure
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As this last example suggests, there is room for disagreement over the use of Ockham's Razor.
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Ockham's contributions were by no means the only factor in the increasing mathematization of science in the fourteenth century.
William of Ockham
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Ockham does not speak of ampliation and restriction.
Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms
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A Brockhampton farm is paid ￡87 per acre for the 1,700 acres it has in set-aside.
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One fine May morning, William of Ockham was skirting the bosky woods, heading for open country in search of early mushrooms when a dragon alighted on the greensward not half a furling from him.
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Once one realizes that we can appeal to connotation theory, and more generally the theory of exposition, without invoking new entities, the door is opened to applying mathematical analyses (all of which are exponible, for Ockham) to all kinds of things, and in particular to physical nature.
William of Ockham
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See G. Leff, Medieval Thought: St Augustine to Ockham, passim.
