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From the Encyclopedia of
Philosophy.
Excerpt:
William of Ockham, the Franciscan school man,
nominalist, and "doctor
invincibilis," was born at Ockham in 1280 and died in Munich on
April 10, 1349. Of his early life, little is known. From the scarce
data, it may be concluded that he entered the Franciscan order at an
early age. He received his bachelor's degree at Oxford, and his master's
at Paris, where he taught from a date between 1315 and 1320. The
tradition that he was a pupil of Duns Scotus is probably correct. There
is no evidence that he returned to England and taught at Oxford. In any
case, it is with Paris that his principal teaching activity is
connected. His doctrines had taken such hold there by 1339 that the
philosophical faculty felt obliged to issue a warning against them.
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