Tag: Noumena

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Michael Egnor
Date
June 8, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind

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Aristotle, Augustine, Duns Scotus, Featured, Immanuel Kant, Nominalism, Noumena, Phenomena, Plato, Realism, Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham}

Nominalism: The Stubble Left by Ockham’s Razor

_{Ockham was a methodological minimalist, not a philosophical minimalist} _{Michael Egnor

June 8, 2020

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Philosophy of Mind}

Ockham did not say that complex metaphysical realities don’t exist. He said that we should trim our understanding of reality to the use of as few concepts as possible for reasons of efficiency, even at the cost of absolute precision. Ockham may thus be said to be a methodological minimalist. Read More ›