William+of+Ockham

William of Ockham.

Was a Franciscan Friar Died 1349

Came after Duns Scotus and took the realism philosophy and extended it further. William of Ockham is known for his stance on nominalism and is the founding philosopher for that school of thought. Nominalism argued that God is unknowable with our human reason, and that something like natural laws or basic "humanness" is not something that is knowable, it is not real, but is only a term. Thus to use our humanness to examine God tells us nothing.

All in all, his thoughts also contributed to the crisis of the Medieval church in the early 14th centtury