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William of Ockham (/ˈɒkəm/; also Occam; c. 1287 – 1347) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher and theologian who is believed to have been born in Ockham a small village in Surrey. He is considered to be one of the major figures of medieval thought and was at the centre of the major intellectual and political controversies of the fourteenth century.

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birth date
1287-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
birth place
Kingdom of England, Ockham Surrey
death date
1347-01-01T00:00:00+02:00
death place
Holy Roman Empire, Munich
era
Medieval philosophy
individualised GND number
118633015
influenced
History of science, John Wycliffe, Willard Van Orman Quine
influenced by
Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Peter Abelard, Petrus Aureolus, Durandus of Saint-Pourçain, Duns Scotus
main interest
Epistemology, Metaphysics, Ontology, Politics, Theology, Logic
notableIdea
Nominalism, Occam's razor
philosophicalSchool
Scholasticism
region
Western philosophy

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