Rondo Keele > Quotes

“Aristotle and most mediaeval philosophers were thus direct realists, believing that we sense, usually directly and unproblematically, the external world around us.”
― Rondo Keele, Ockham Explained

“Ockham spent much of his time trying to convince his colleagues by various ingenious means that interpretations such as 1 and 2 are dangerous, unreasonable and send philosophy into nonsense, and that interpretations such as 3 and 4 are more rational.”
― Rondo Keele, Ockham Explained

“Ockham and Aristotle were of one mind in their basic attitudes toward human cognition: all knowledge, they believed, arises from experience.”
― Rondo Keele, Ockham Explained

“you can’t necessarily reason from the existence of universal concepts in thought and language to universal realities in the world that those concepts are about.”
― Rondo Keele, Ockham Explained