Nominalism: The Stubble Left by Ockham’s Razor
Ockham was a methodological minimalist, not a philosophical minimalistOckham did not say that complex metaphysical realities don’t exist. He said that we should trim our understanding of reality to the use of as few concepts as possible for reasons of efficiency, even at the cost of absolute precision. Ockham may thus be said to be a methodological minimalist.
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