page_title: Occamism
hierarchical_section_title: Occamism
caption_attribution_description: English: William of Ockham, from stained glass window at a church in Surrey.
context_page_description: Occamism is the philosophical and theological teaching developed by William of Ockham and his disciples, which had widespread currency in the fourteenth century.
  Occamism differed from the other Scholastic schools on two major points: first, Occamism strongly argued position that only individuals exist, rather than supra-individual metaphysical universals, essences, or forms, and that universals are the products of abstraction from individuals by the human mind and have no extra-mental existence. Second, Occamism denied the real existence of metaphysical universals and advocated the reduction of ontology.
context_section_description: Occamism (or Ockhamism) is the philosophical and theological teaching developed by William of Ockham (1285–1347) and his disciples, which had widespread currency in the fourteenth century.
  Occamism differed from the other Scholastic schools on two major points: first, Occamism strongly argued position that only individuals exist, rather than supra-individual metaphysical universals, essences, or forms, and that universals are the products of abstraction from individuals by the human mind and have no extra-mental existence. Second, Occamism denied the real existence of metaphysical universals and advocated the reduction of ontology.
caption: William of Ockham the eponym of Occamism.
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