Plurality is never to be posited without necessity. - William of Ockham

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Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.

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About William of Ockham

William of Ockham, also Occam (ca. 1287–1347), was an English theologian and Franciscan friar, most famous as a proponent of what has become known as Occam's razor.

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Alternative Names: Guilelmus de‏ ‎Ockham William of Occam William of Oakham
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Intuitive cognition is such that when some things are cognized, of which one inheres in the other, or one is spatially distant from the other, or exists in some relation to the other, immediately in virtue of that non-propositional cognition of those things, it is known if the thing inheres or does not inhere, if it is spatially distant or not, and the same for other true contingent propositions, unless that cognition is flawed or there is some impediment.

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