Ockham

Question 1

what is the first intention

Answer 1

refers to real things, individual things

eg. tree, dog, spaceship

Question 2

what is the second intention

Answer 2

refers to things in the mind, first intentions

Question 3

Ockham lived from

Answer 3

1285 - 1347

Question 4

epistemology

Answer 4

all knowledge is sense perception

Question 5

universal can’t exist outside the mind because

Answer 5

then it would be a substance and substances are individuals

Question 6

what is Ockham’s concept of universals

Answer 6

they don’t actually exist and are just our way of explaining what we sense around us