Occamism

English Franciscan friar and theologian (c.1287–1347)

philosophical principle used to judge credibility of statements

thumb|William of Ockham

school of thought in metaphysics, psychology, sociology, and theology

thumb|Peter Abelard, a French philosopher, theologian and preeminent logician, put forward the theory of conceptualism. In metaphysics, conceptualism is a theory that explains universality of particulars as conceptualized frameworks situated within the thinking mind. Intermediate between nominalism and realism, the conceptualist view approaches the metaphysical concept of universals from a perspective that denies their presence in particulars outside the mind's perception of them. Conceptualism is anti-realist about abstract objects, just like immanent realism is (their difference being that i

German theologian and philosopher (c.1320-1390)

German theologian and philosopher

thumb|William of Ockham, the [[eponym of Occamism.]]

textbook on logic (1323) by William of Ockham

German university teacher (1460-1519)

French philosopher

14th-century Dominican friar and English theologian