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[#154] GROTTO OF TRUTH Q&A XXI, Part Two

Subliminal Jihad

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The Importance of Skepticism in Philosophy

I feel like that thing about the competing hypotheses Are about the same prediction Right It's about why Like two different explanations For why something will happen But not supposed to be. William advocated a reform Of scholasticism both in method and in content The aim of this reformation movement In general was simplification This aim he formulated in the celebrated law Of parsimony Commonly called Occam's razor But again he didn't actually Formulate it What the tendency to wear simplification Was a unity A very market tendency To wear skepticism A distrust namely The ability of the human mind To reach certitude He denied these ins of intentional species Related to the distinction Between essence and existence And protested against the Tomistic

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