
1348) was an English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher, from Ockham, a small village in Surrey, near East Horsley. William of Ockham (also Occam, Hockham, or any of several other spellings, IPA: /ˈɒkəm/) (c. Words/phrases/paragraphs are accidentally omitted from the translation, words/phrases are misleadingly translated, and so on.more But worse (and rather unfortunately), Loux's translation is known to be unreliable for a number of reasons (See Paul Vincent Spade's review in Nous. There are many typos and misspellings throughout in the English. As far as the translation and editing, it receives only 2 stars. One problem with the rating system is that we need two ratings, one for the content of the book and the other for the translation and editing.

But worse (and rather unfortunately), Loux's translation is known to be unreliable for a number of reasons (See Paul Vincent Spade's review in Nous: Part 1 of Ockham's magnum opus on logic.

Yet the paucity of English translations and the structural complexity of the Latin have made the Summa, until now, almost completely inaccessible.Here Michael Loux has translated the first part of the Summa, one of the most original and influential medieval texts in logic.more Ockham's Summa Logicae was intended as a basic text in philosophy, but its originality and scope encompass his whole system of philosophy. Ockham's Summa Logicae was intended as a basic text in philosophy, but its William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism - the school of thought that denies that universals have any reality apart from the individual things signified by the universal or general term. William of Ockham, the most prestigious philosopher of the fourteenth century, was a late Scholastic thinker who is regarded as the founder of Nominalism - the school of thought that denies that universals have any reality apart from the individual things signified by the universal or general term.
