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Ockham's Razor

In Our Time: Philosophy

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Aristotle's Metaphysical Fuzzy Beard

Ockam thought his predecessors had grown a huge metaphysical fuzzy beard, which needed a cutting off. He didn't believe in the er universals that were fundamental in tis position. The importance of this has to do with the relation between philosophy and theology he was talking about. For ohem as, only in the case of the trinity. But many christian doctrines, like predestination, ar the eucharist and everything, ocam will tell you, there's a tremendous amount of philosophical difficulty in understanding these.

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