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All the ideas for 'Actions', 'Commentary on 'Posterior Analytics'' and 'Tractatus de corpore Christi'

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2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 6. Ockham's Razor

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Why use more things when fewer will do? [William of Ockham]

9. Objects / B. Unity of Objects / 2. Substance / b. Need for substance

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By comparing qualities and features, reason can gradually infer the nature of substance [Grosseteste]

20. Action / A. Definition of Action / 5. Action as Trying

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Bodily movements are not actions, which are really the tryings within bodily movement [Hornsby, by Stout,R]

26. Natural Theory / A. Speculations on Nature / 7. Later Matter Theories / b. Corpuscles

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Every extended material substance is composed of parts distant from one another [William of Ockham]