This thinker, whose idealization of poverty fueled his dispute with Pope John XXII, transitioned from a "⢸ctum-theory" to an "intellectio-theory" to critique the idea of universal concepts in metaphysics.
This thinker developed the notion of "intuitive cognition," which he distinguished from "abstractive cognition." This thinker used the example of the sentence "Socrates is similar to Plato" to show that seven out of ten of Aristotle's categories were unnecessary. This thinker, whose idealization of poverty fueled his dispute with Pope John XXII, transitioned from a "⢸ctum-theory" to an "intellectio-theory" to critique the idea of universal concepts in metaphysics. This thinker's textbook Summa Logicae outlines his nominalist position, which has been boiled down to the statement "entities should not be multiplied without necessity." For 10 points, what Franciscan friar names a statement holding that the simplest idea is usually the correct one, which is o0en referred to as his "razor"?
This thinker developed the notion of "intuitive cognition," which he distinguished from "abstractive cognition.
William of Ockham [or William of Occam; or Gulielmus Occamus; accept Ockham's razor]