Philosopher · High and Late Middle Ages · England
William of Ockham
c. 1287–1347
English Franciscan friar and logician whose razor, do not multiply entities beyond need, became a rule of science. He quarreled with Pope John XXII over poverty, fled Avignon, and died under excommunication. He lived about 1287 to 1347.
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- Born
- About 1287, Ockham, Surrey, England.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, William of Ockham
- Died
- 1347, Munich, Germany, probably of the plague.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, William of Ockham
- School
- Scholasticism; nominalism, the denial that universals exist outside the mind.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, William of Ockham
- Known for
- Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, and writings against papal power in politics.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, William of Ockham
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