On Ockham /
Kaye, Sharon M.
On Ockham / Sharon M. Kaye, Robert M. Martin. - Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2001. - 97 p. : 1 port. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-97).
Expounds on nominalism which view universal essences, such as humanity or whiteness as nothing more than concepts in the mind. Develops Aristotelian ontology, admitting only substances and qualities. In epistemology, Ockham defends direct realist empiricism, according to which human beings perceive objects through "intuitive cognition"without the help of any innate idea.
534583636
Philosophy, Medieval.
B 765.O34 / .K182 2001
On Ockham / Sharon M. Kaye, Robert M. Martin. - Belmont, CA : Wadsworth/Thomson Learning, c2001. - 97 p. : 1 port. 22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-97).
Expounds on nominalism which view universal essences, such as humanity or whiteness as nothing more than concepts in the mind. Develops Aristotelian ontology, admitting only substances and qualities. In epistemology, Ockham defends direct realist empiricism, according to which human beings perceive objects through "intuitive cognition"without the help of any innate idea.
534583636
Philosophy, Medieval.
B 765.O34 / .K182 2001
