Questiones libri Porphirii /
Manlevelt, Thomas,active 14th century,author.
Helm, Alfred van der.
The 'Questiones libri Porphirii' is a commentary on Porphyry's 'Isagoge' by the fourteenth-century logician Thomas Manlevelt. It is edited here in full. Not much is known of Thomas Manlevelt, but his work is remarkable enough. Following in the footsteps of William of Ockham, Manlevelt stresses the individual nature of all things existing in the outside world. He radically challenges our conceptional framework. He applies Ockham's razor in an unscrupulous manner to do away with all entities not deemed necessary for preservation. In the end, Manlevelt even maintains that substance does not exist. In this text early Ockhamism is being pushed to its extremes.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The 'Questiones libri Porphirii' is a commentary on Porphyry's 'Isagoge' by the fourteenth-century logician Thomas Manlevelt. It is edited here in full. Not much is known of Thomas Manlevelt, but his work is remarkable enough. Following in the footsteps of William of Ockham, Manlevelt stresses the individual nature of all things existing in the outside world. He radically challenges our conceptional framework. He applies Ockham's razor in an unscrupulous manner to do away with all entities not deemed necessary for preservation. In the end, Manlevelt even maintains that substance does not exist. In this text early Ockhamism is being pushed to its extremes.
Porphyry, approximately 234-approximately 305.
Manlevelt, Thomas, active 14th century.