Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Natural Science (lost)', 'Prologue to Ordinatio' and 'De Essentia'

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4 ideas

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 6. Criterion for Existence
Everything exists which anyone perceives [Metrodorus of Chios]
9. Objects / A. Existence of Objects / 5. Individuation / d. Individuation by haecceity
A snowball's haecceity is the property of being identical with itself [Plantinga, by Westerhoff]
11. Knowledge Aims / A. Knowledge / 4. Belief / c. Aim of beliefs
Our intellect only assents to what we believe to be true [William of Ockham]
15. Nature of Minds / C. Capacities of Minds / 3. Abstraction by mind
Abstractive cognition knows universals abstracted from many singulars [William of Ockham]