Quotes by William Of Ockham - Page 1

Entities should not be posited unnecessarily.
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Science
Entity
Should
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Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
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Atheism
Occam's Razor
Razors
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Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.
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Logic
Witty
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Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Entity
Occam's Razor
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God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.
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Existence
Reason
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Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.
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Less Is More
Simple
Simplicity
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Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.
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Entity
Occam's Razor
Stupidity
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It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
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Peace
Creativity
Simple
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Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
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Simplicity
Two
Use
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No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.
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Assumption
Explanation
Occam's Razor
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With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.
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Equal
Explanation
Occam's Razor
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Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.
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Being Equal
Equal
Explanation
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Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.
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Entity
Increase
Numbers
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When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.
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Predictions
Theory
Two
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What can be explained by the assumption of fewer things is vainly explained by the assumption of more things.
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Assumption
Fewer
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Of two equivalent theories or explanations, all other things being equal, the simpler one is to be preferred.
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Decision
Occam's Razor
Two
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Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate. A plurality (of reasons) should not be posited without necessity.
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Reason
Should
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3 is a prime, 5 is a prime, and 7 is a prime. Why bother with non-prime numbers when the primes can do everything?
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Bother
Numbers
Prime
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For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.
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Reason
Sacred Scripture
Self
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First it must be known that only a spoken word or a conventional sign is an equivocal or univocal term; therefore a mental contentor concept is, strictly speaking, neither equivocal nor univocal.
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Firsts
Language
Term
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My God is the green tide in the spring leaves the redness of cherries high in the air the excitement of shooting stars the song of birds in summer branches the sunrise on a winter's morning the name of everything we don't understand.
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Morning
Song
Summer
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Intuitive cognition of a thing is cognition that enables us to know whether the thing exists or does not exist, in such a way that, if the thing exists, then the intellect immediately judges that it exists and evidently knows that it exists, unless the judgment happens to be impeded through the imperfection of this cognition.
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Imperfection
Judging
Perception
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