WILLIAM OCKHAM

who is William Ockham?

William Ockham was a Franciscan friar and an English scholastic medieval philosopher. He was born in England and he stood out for something well known today. He was the first author of parsimony or "Navaja of Ockam" used in science to eliminate ideas that are not necessary.
As he was a Franciscan, he was dedicated to a life of extreme poverty. He died because of the black pest.

Critical of the ideas of St. Thomas Aquinas, he was very polemical in his own time, as he considered the existence of God more of a probability than a certainty. Outstanding among his works is the Quodlibeta Septem, a commentary on the sentences of Pietro Lombardo. It seems that he could have died of the plague in 1347.

how is his theory?

If you are near a village and you hear something galloping, it must be horses or zebras, but the most simply thing is that the noise that you have heart is of horses. But, it could be the other option, but it is more difficult to think, to be, or to believe.

And... his life?

William Ockham joined the Franciscan Order being still very young and he was educated firstly in the Franciscan house of London and then in Oxford. He did not manage to end his studies in Oxford but during this time it is when he wrote the majority of philosophical works.

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