William of Ockham

Background

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham

Commentary

Arthur Hyman and James J. Walsh. Philosophy in the Middle Ages: The Christian, Islamic, and Jewish Traditions. Indanapolis: Hackett, 1973.

"We have, then, the Razor, terminist analysis, the reservation of the divine omnipotence, and the master conviction of the singularity of real existents; and none of these can be omitted as fundamental to Ockhamism" (Hyman Walsh 607).