FOM: Correction - flatus vocis

[Jeffrey Ketland]

Amending my previous message ("Re: the logical, the set-theoretical and the
mathematical").

Whoops - it was *Roscellin* (an 11th century mediaeval philosopher), not
Ockham (a 14th century mediaeval logician), who is reported to have said
that universals are "flatus vocis".

Just checking W. Kneale & M. Kneale 1962 "The Development of Logic"
(Oxford), Ockham actually wrote "numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine
necessitate" (a plurality is never to be assumed without necessity) and is
reported to have said "entia non sunt multiplicanda sine necessitate"
(entities shouldn't be multiplied without necessity).

Jeff

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