Occam's Concept of Humanity

Scholastics referred to things that have real existence out in the world as being subjective, and things represented in the mind as objective. For Occam, these unreal things would include universals, since there is no common or universal nature of humanity on Earth. The ficta are mental constructs or representations which we generate for ourselves after encountering things in the world. In his early works, he expresses this with the notion of a fictum,.