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Full Idea
Ockham regards Quantity as an entirely superfluous ontological category, …because matter is intrinsically extended.
Gist of Idea
Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity
Source
report of William of Ockham (Summula philosophiae naturalis [1320]) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 04.4
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.66
| 16673 | Quantity just adds union and location to the extension of parts [Olivi] |
| 16672 | Quantity is the quantified parts of a thing, plus location and coordination [Olivi] |
| 16599 | Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity [William of Ockham, by Pasnau] |
| 16681 | Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion [William of Ockham] |
| 16678 | Without magnitude a thing would retain its parts, but they would have no location [Buridan] |
| 16743 | We can get at the essential nature of 'quantity' by knowing bulk and extension [Suárez] |
| 16597 | Quantity is the capacity to be divided [Digby] |
| 16674 | The quantity is just the matter, in that it has extended parts and is diffuse [Charleton] |
| 16671 | Scholastic Quantity either gives a body parts, or spreads them out in a unified way [Pasnau] |