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Ideas of William of Ockham, by Text

[English, 1287 - 1347, Born in Ockham, Surrey. Ended up at the court of Bavaria. Franciscan. Died in Munich.]

1320 Commentary on the Sentences
IV.13 p.693 16792 If parts change, the whole changes
1320 Ordinatio
DII Qviii prima redactio p.41 9104 A universal is the result of abstraction, which is only a kind of mental picturing
DII Qviii prima redactio p.41 9103 A universal is not a real feature of objects, but only a thought-object in the mind
1320 Predest.,God's foreknowledge and contingents
7.1 p.225 16654 Our words and concepts don't always correspond to what is out there
1320 Prologue to Ordinatio
Q 1 N sqq p.18 9100 Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true
Q 1 N sqq p.22 9101 Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars
1320 Summula philosophiae naturalis
p.66 16599 Ockham says matter must be extended, so we don't need Quantity [Pasnau]
p.86 16608 Ockham was an anti-realist about the categories [Pasnau]
I.13 p.303 16681 Matter gets its quantity from condensation and rarefaction, which is just local motion
1323 Summa totius logicae
p.15 16300 Ockham had an early axiomatic account of truth [Halbach]
p.55 15388 Universals are single things, and only universal in what they signify
I.c.i p.47 9105 Some concepts for propositions exist only in the mind, and in no language
I.c.iv p.51 9106 The word 'every' only signifies when added to a term such as 'man', referring to all men
I.c.xliv p.138 9113 Just as unity is not a property of a single thing, so numbers are not properties of many things
II.c.ii p.76 9107 A proposition is true if its subject and predicate stand for the same thing
III,II,c,xxvii p.93 9109 If essence and existence were two things, one could exist without the other, which is impossible
III,II,c,xxvii p.93 9110 The words 'thing' and 'to be' assert the same idea, as a noun and as a verb
III.c.xxxvi p.88 9108 From an impossibility anything follows
1323 Tractatus de corpore Christi
Ch. 12 p.289 16675 Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another
Ch. 29 p.290 16676 Why use more things when fewer will do?
1330 Reportatio
III Q viii p.107 9111 God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good
III Q viii p.112 9112 We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures
1332 Seven Quodlibets
I Q x p.142 9114 There are no secure foundations to prove the separate existence of mind, in reason or experience
I Q xiii p.30 9102 If an animal approached from a distance, we might abstract 'animal' from one instance
III Q xiii p.147 9115 To love God means to love whatever God wills to be loved
III.6 p.561 16757 Hot water naturally cools down, which is due to the substantial form of the water
IV.19 p.611 16779 Cut wood doesn't make a new substance, but seems to make separate subjects
VI q.25 p.135 18529 Relations are expressed either as absolute facts, or by a relational concept
1335 works
p. 6806 Do not multiply entities beyond necessity
p.119 8010 William of Ockham is the main spokesman for God's commands being the source of morality
p.295 16679 Even an angel must have some location [Pasnau]
p.1056 22132 Species and genera are individual concepts which naturally signify many individuals
6:496 p.146 19381 The past has ceased to exist, and the future does not yet exist, so time does not exist
1340 Expositio super viii libros
Prologue p.3 9089 Knowledge is a quality existing subjectively in the soul
Prologue p.4 9090 Knowledge is certain cognition of something that is true
Prologue p.5 9091 Sometimes 'knowledge' just concerns the conclusion, sometimes the whole demonstration