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Single Idea 9111
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 3. Divine Perfections
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Full Idea
God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good.
Gist of Idea
God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good
Source
William of Ockham (Reportatio [1330], III Q viii)
Book Ref
Ockham,William of: 'Ockham's Philosophical Writings', ed/tr. Boehner,P [Hackett 1990], p.107
A Reaction
[He is quoting 'Damascene'] I quote this for interest, but I very much doubt whether Damascene or William knew what it meant, and I certainly don't. There seems to have been a politically correct desire to invent super-powers for God.
The
36 ideas
from William of Ockham
9089
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Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul
[William of Ockham]
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9091
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Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration
[William of Ockham]
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9090
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Knowledge is certain cognition of something that is true
[William of Ockham]
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16792
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If parts change, the whole changes
[William of Ockham]
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9103
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A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind
[William of Ockham]
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9104
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A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing
[William of Ockham]
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16654
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Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there
[William of Ockham]
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9101
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Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars
[William of Ockham]
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9100
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Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true
[William of Ockham]
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9111
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God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good
[William of Ockham]
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9112
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We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures
[William of Ockham]
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9114
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There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience
[William of Ockham]
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9102
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If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance
[William of Ockham]
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9115
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To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved
[William of Ockham]
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16757
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Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water
[William of Ockham]
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16779
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Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects
[William of Ockham]
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18529
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Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept
[William of Ockham]
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16599
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Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity
[William of Ockham, by Pasnau]
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16608
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Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories
[William of Ockham, by Pasnau]
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16681
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Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion
[William of Ockham]
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15388
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Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify
[William of Ockham]
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16300
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Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth
[William of Ockham, by Halbach]
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9105
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Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language
[William of Ockham]
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9106
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The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men
[William of Ockham]
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9113
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Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things
[William of Ockham]
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9107
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A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing
[William of Ockham]
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9110
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The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb
[William of Ockham]
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9109
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If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible
[William of Ockham]
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9108
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From an impossibility anything follows
[William of Ockham]
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16675
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Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another
[William of Ockham]
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16676
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Why use more things when fewer will do?
[William of Ockham]
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6806
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Do not multiply entities beyond necessity
[William of Ockham]
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22132
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Species and genera are individual concepts which naturally signify many individuals
[William of Ockham]
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16679
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Even an angel must have some location
[William of Ockham, by Pasnau]
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8010
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William of Ockham is the main spokesman for God's commands being the source of morality
[William of Ockham]
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19381
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The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist
[William of Ockham]
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