The principle was originally invoked by Durand de Saint-Pourcain, a French Dominican theologian and philosopher of dubious orthodoxy.
The principle was originally invoked by Durand de Saint-Pourcain, a French Dominican theologian and philosopher of dubious orthodoxy. He used it to explain that abstraction is the apprehension of some real entity, such as an Aristotelian cognitive species or an active intellect, both of which he spurned as unnecessary. The man for whom it is named used it to dispense with relations, which were held to be nothing distinct from their foundation in things; and with motion, which is merely the reappearance of a thing in a different place. FTP, what is this concept translated from Latin to "entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity," which was used "sharply" by William of Ockham?
The principle was originally invoked by Durand de Saint-Pourcain, a French Dominican theologian and philosopher of dubious orthodoxy.
{Ockham’s razor} or {Law of Economy} or {Law of Parsimony}