After Ockham: Marsilius of Inghen and Pierre d’Ailly on Knowledge and the Existing Singular

Abstract

The philosophy ot the later fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries has been the focus of increasing attention and continued reassessment. Thinkers who were once labeled, usually derisively, “nominalists,” are beginning to emerge as original, eclectic, and important thinkers in their own right. Historians and philosophers are beginning to realize that the divisions between the via aniiqua and via moiarna so common in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries cannot be applied accurately to the fourteenth century Two philosophers to emerge as important in contemporary scholarship are Pierre d’Ailly and Marsilius of. Inghen.