William Ockham

William Ockham was an English Franciscan and was philosopher, he was of Ockham, a little town of surrey. Is considered the largest speculative mind of the Middle Ages. Was a pioner of the nominalism.

William Ockham was goined in the Franciscan Order very young, and was educed in the London Franciscan House and after in the Oxford Institute, but the studyes was don't complete.

Ockham was probably more know today for this commitment to methaphysical nominalism. William also study philosophy logistic-medieval, phisic or philosofic and etic, as well as in theology.

William Ockham was born, probably in late 1287 or care 1288, in the villageof Ockham in the Surry condade at southoest of London Arround 1310, when he was around twenty three years, Ockham began his theological traning.

It is not certain that this training occurred.

It is not certain that this training took palce it could well have been at Oxford, where was one ther franciscan convent associated with the university. It could have been in the London convent, or could have been at Oxford, where he had another Franciscan 1324, to respond to the charges. He never went back to England.

In Avignon, he stayed at the Franciscan Convent there.

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Information: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham/