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The Cambridge companion to Ockham
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ISBN: 0521587905 052158244X 9780521582445 9780521587907 9781139000284 Year: 1999 Volume: *23 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press,

Le statut parisien des nominalistes : recherches sur la formation du concept de réalité de la science moderne de la nature : Guillaume d'Occam, Jean Buridan et Pierre d'Espagne, Nicolas d'Autrecourt et Grégoire de Rimini
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ISBN: 2130389856 9782130389859 Year: 1985 Publisher: Paris : PUF - Presses Universitaires de France,


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Guillaume d'Ockham le singulier
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ISBN: 2707312002 9782707312006 Year: 1989 Publisher: Paris : Editions de Minuit,


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La doctrine de l'Église et de l'État chez Occam, étude sur le "Breviloquium"
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Year: 1942 Publisher: Paris, : Éditions franciscaines,


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Ockham's razors : a user's manual
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ISBN: 9781107692534 9781107068490 9781107705937 1107692539 1107068495 1316371530 1316365530 1107705932 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an important role in current physics, biology, and psychology. The razor also gets used outside of science - in everyday life and in philosophy. This book evaluates the principle and discusses its many applications. Fascinating examples from different domains provide a rich basis for contemplating the principle's promises and perils. It is obvious that simpler theories are beautiful and easy to understand; the hard problem is to figure out why the simplicity of a theory should be relevant to saying what the world is like. In this book, the ABCs of probability theory are succinctly developed and put to work to describe two 'parsimony paradigms' within which this problem can be solved.

Ockham and political discourse in the late Middle Ages
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ISBN: 9780521845816 0521845815 9780521143981 9780511497223 9780511342462 0511342462 0511341407 9780511341403 9780511340826 0511340826 0511497229 0521143985 1107175429 1281085049 9786611085049 1139131052 0511341938 Year: 2007 Volume: 4th ser., 69. Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The English Franciscan William of Ockham (c.1285-1347) was one of the most influential philosophers and theologians in late medieval Europe. Fresh scholarship has shown his profound impact on logic, metaphysics, epistemology and the philosophy of language in the late Middle Ages and beyond. Following a dispute between the papacy and his Order, Ockham abandoned his academic career and devoted himself to anti-papal polemics. Scholars have produced divergent and often contradictory interpretations of Ockham as a political thinker: a destructive critic of the medieval Church, a medieval Catholic traditionalist, the Franciscan ideologue, and a constitutional liberal. This 2007 book offers a fresh reappraisal of Ockham's political thought by approaching his anti-papal writings as a series of polemical responses. His aggressive and persistent attack on the papacy emerges in this study as an attempt to rescue the ethical foundations of the Christian society from the political influences of heretical popes.

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