In discussing how complex terms signify, this thinker held that they are not synonymous with their definition, because they signify more than is contained in the definition. Marilyn Adams built on Stephen Brown's reading of this thinker's attempt to develop an account of similarity that would simplify Aristotle's categories. Boehner and Moody collaborated on the critical edition of this thinker's complete works. A problem named for this man asks what kind of non-numerical unity the haecceity of things must have. This man's main work subordinated written and spoken language to that of thought, because only the latter's significations are ordained by (*) nature. This author of a Summa of Logic favoured nominalism due to a commitment to ontological parsimony, which grounds a heuristic associa
In discussing how complex terms signify, this thinker held that they are not synonymous with their definition, because they signify more than is contained in the definition. Marilyn Adams built on Stephen Brown's reading of this thinker's attempt to develop an account of similarity that would simplify Aristotle's categories. Boehner and Moody collaborated on the critical edition of this thinker's complete works. A problem named for this man asks what kind of non-numerical unity the haecceity of things must have. This man's main work subordinated written and spoken language to that of thought, because only the latter's significations are ordained by (*) nature. This author of a Summa of Logic favoured nominalism due to a commitment to ontological parsimony, which grounds a heuristic associated with him. For 10 points, the slogan "do not multiply entities beyond necessity" is whose razor?
In discussing how complex terms signify, this thinker held that they are not synonymous with their definition, because they signify more than is contained in the definition.
William of Ockham