TY - BOOK AU - Kaye, Sharon M. AU - Martin, Robert M. TI - On Ockham SN - 534583636 AV - B 765.O34 .K182 2001 PY - 2001/// CY - Belmont, CA PB - Wadsworth/Thomson Learning KW - Philosophy, Medieval N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-97) N2 - 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 ER -