This was a leading branch of philosophy until its decline around the fifteenth century.
This branch of thought included The Four Books of Sentences by Peter Lombard and near its end included John Ponce, who wrote, "Entities are not to be multiplied unnecessarily." It was concerned with conceptual analysis and, like the Greeks, often used the dialectic method. Some of its central works were Sic et Non and Summa Theologica written respectively by Peter Abelard and Thomas Aquinas, and one of their goals was to use logic in their study of theology. This was a leading branch of philosophy until its decline around the fifteenth century. Identify this school named after the heads of academic institutions.
This branch of thought included The Four Books of Sentences by Peter Lombard and near its end included John Ponce, who wrote, "Entities are not to be multiplied unnecessarily.
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