HoP 272 - A Close Shave - Ockham’s Nominalism
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Occam's Somalogi Kai
Medieval scholastics cut their teeth on Aristotle's introductory logical treatise The Categories. They standardly assumed there are individual entities that fall under all ten of the categories named by Aristotle. Occam's masterpiece, the Somalogi Kai, devotes great effort to demolishing this picture.
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