Re: [tied] Re: OE *picga

--- Piotr Gasiorowski <piotr.gasiorowski@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: tgpedersen
> To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 8:18 PM
> Subject: [tied] Re: OE *picga
>
>
>(T) I saw "sine ratione" somewhere, but you might be
> right. Does it make an essential difference here?
>
>(P) Actually, William of Occam never actually wrote
> those words.

*****GK: The only context in which he did is in the
Summa Totius Logicae (Part I, ch. 57) where he wrote
"...videtur absurdum quia ponitur pluralitas sine
necessitate et sine ratione"*****

(P)He expressed the principle of parsimony

> in many ways in his works, e.g. "Pluralitas non est
> ponenda sine necessitate".

*****GK: And marginally more frequently: "frustra fit
per plura quod potest /aeque bene/ fieri per
pauciora".****



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