Ockham Flashcards
1
Q
what is the first intention
A
refers to real things, individual things
eg. tree, dog, spaceship
2
Q
what is the second intention
A
refers to things in the mind, first intentions
3
Q
Ockham lived from
A
1285 - 1347
4
Q
epistemology
A
all knowledge is sense perception
5
Q
universal can’t exist outside the mind because
A
then it would be a substance and substances are individuals
6
Q
what is Ockham’s concept of universals
A
they don’t actually exist and are just our way of explaining what we sense around us
