6/22/2023 0 Comments Ockham disparate terms![]() In any case, there are no such things as natural statues, any more than there could be substances created by human artifice. Nicholas uses the terms generation and destruction when referring to the congregation and dispersal of atoms which constitute a substance, and he. The second problem with the popular use of Occam’s Razor is the mangling of the term necessity. Occam’s Razor is the same: the simplest explanation is not necessarily the correct one. Ockham does not think that a new thing is thereby created, although his emphasis on the contribution of human artisans seems to leave questions about the ontological status of their agency open. However, you can’t state in absolute terms that he must be shorter than a typical adult. ![]() For Ockham, artifacts are essentially rearrangements, via human agency, of already existing things, like the clay shaped by a sculptor into a statue or the stick and bristles and string one might fashion into a broom. Rather, he understands artifacts as per accidens composites of parts that differ, but not so much that only divine power could unite them, as in the matter and form of a proper substance. Hence, I will use these terms for both textual and. Mental terms (concepts) signify naturally 5 they are natural likenesses or representations of the things they signify.6 Spoken and written terms, on the other hand, signify by convention (ad placitum).1 indeed all terms in any category other than substance or quality (cf. mentalis of William of Ockham much later) to grammatical structure. A linguistic term acquires its signification in one of two ways. Thus, in contrast to his predecessors, Thomas Aquinas and Duns Scotus, he denies that artifacts become such by means of an advening ‘artificial form’ or ‘form of the whole’ or any change that might tempt us to say that we are dealing with a new thing ( res). Moreover, Ockham, to my knowledge, tends to use the terms singularis (e.g. The terms, notably in Philo and Porphyry, play the role of an organizing principle. Much of this book is devoted to Duns Scotus and Ockham Porphyry. Among medieval Aristotelians, William of Ockham defends a minimalist account of artifacts, assigning to statues and houses and beds a unity that is merely spatial or locational rather than metaphysical. Includes a concise Introduction, glossary of important terms, notes, and bibliography.
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