| Description |
1 online resource (297 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Series |
Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 109
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Studien und Texte zur Geistesgeschichte des Mittelalters ; 109.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-289) and index. |
| Summary |
In this book, Jenny Pelletier offers an account of Ockham's concept of metaphysics as it emerges throughout his philosophical and theological work. She argues that Ockham (c. 1287-1347) believed metaphysics to be a fruitful branch of philosophy and gives a preliminary description of its distinctive subject-matter. Metaphysics is a science that studies all beings and their most general features. It works out a general ontology that includes God. Ockham has long been considered by some to be profoundly skeptical of metaphysical knowledge. Recent scholarship tends to focus on his logic (semantics), theory of cognition, concepts, mental language. Jenny Pelletier provides a positive interpretation of Ockham on metaphysics that enriches our current understanding of this seminal medieval thinker. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349.
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William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349. |
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William, of Ockham, approximately 1285-approximately 1349. |
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Metaphysics.
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Metaphysics. |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Pelletier, Jenny E. William Ockham on metaphysics. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013 9789004230156 (DLC) 2012024814 (OCoLC)795629735 |
| ISBN |
9789004230163 (electronic book) |
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9004230165 (electronic book) |
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9789004230156 |
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9004230157 |
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