Jean Buridan (Dictionary of World Biography: The Middle Ages)
Early Life
Jean Buridan was born in northern France toward the end of the thirteenth century and received his early education at church schools in the diocese of Arras. His great intellectual gifts were soon manifested, and he went, as a young cleric, to study at the University of Paris. He studied philosophy and was profoundly influenced by Ockhamism. William of Ockham, an English Franciscan, espoused nominalism, a doctrine holding that individuals are the primary reality and that universal concepts have...
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