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Full Idea
Ockham is the scholastic paradigm of anti-realism with respect to the categories.
Gist of Idea
Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories
Source
report of William of Ockham (Summula philosophiae naturalis [1320]) by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 05.3
Book Ref
Pasnau,Robert: 'Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671' [OUP 2011], p.86
A Reaction
These are the ten categories mentioned in Aristotle's book 'Categories'.
16608 | Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories [William of Ockham, by Pasnau] |
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] |