In his commentaries on Lombard's Sentences, this nominalist stated "Entities should not be multiplied without necessity."
This philosopher proposed that each virtue has five grades of perfection. Before Jerry Fodor was even born, this man wrote that spoken "connotative terms" and "absolute terms" are subordinated under a wordless mental language. This man's view that no property rights existed in the Garden of Eden led to reciprocal accusations of heresy with the Pope. He wrote that eight of Aristotle's ten categories can be defined in terms of just two: substance and quality. This man's Summa of Logic argued that universals are only in the mind. In his commentaries on Lombard's Sentences, this nominalist stated "Entities should not be multiplied without necessity." For 10 points, name this English friar and Scholastic who names a principle favoring simpler explanations, his namesake "razor."
This philosopher proposed that each virtue has five grades of perfection.
William of Ockham [or William of Occam]