Tuesday, December 16, 2008

William Ockham


William Ockham, was an English philosopher, he was born in Ockham, a little town of Surrey, near of East Horsley, Anyone know when he was born but round the years 1280 and 1300. William was have a poor live. In the medieval age there were an argument between the realist and the normallists. The realists were philosophers and church men. The held that the real reality was consist in no have individuals ideas, if no, in generals ideas. The normallists were thinking the opposing. The normallists was people believed the facts. William de Ockham was the last, and for a lot, the bigger of them. Ockham, the was a church man too. Ockham was practically a modern man. Ockham was die because the black plague, anyone know when he was die with security.


Here are some works of the works that he writes are philosophic, religious and politics:

· Logic maior o Summa logicae (1324 - 1328).
· Philosophia naturalis sive summulae in octo libros physicorum, (1324).
· Questiones earumque decisiones.
· Quodlibeta septem (before of 1327).
· Opus nonaginta dierum (1330-1332).
· De electione Caroli IV (last work).

The creators of the film “The name of the rouse” were the inspiration of William Ockham for do William Baskerville.


Credits:

http://www.contra-mundum.org/castellano/nymeyer/Occam_Razor.pdf
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guillermo_de_Ockham
http://individual.utoronto.ca/hayes/survey2/ockham.jpg

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