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Summa Logicae

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Ockham's major work on logic, where he develops his nominalist position that universals are mental concepts, not real things. The razor cuts here: do not assume the existence of anything unless the evidence requires it.

No plurality should be assumed unless it can be proved by reason, or experience, or by some infallible authority. Everything which is explained through positing something in addition to the individual things can be explained without that additional assumption.

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