agens intellectus: agent intellect: the power that transforms potential knowledge into actual knowledge; produces universal concepts

Alfarabi on the Intellect
Averroes - Biography
Richard Rufus on the Agent Intellect

Ockham’s Razor : “pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate”, a principle that recommends the hypothesis introducing the fewest new assumptions or theoretical postulates, something whose existence seems to be required to explain the way things are

Ockham on Quantitiy (The Razor)
William of Ockham - Biography

perspectiva: perspectives: science of the optics

Roger Bacon - Biography

Perspectiva: Optics

Roger Bacon - Biography

rationes seminales: forms of the eternal reasons

Bonaventure - Biography

real universal: real universals are distinguished mental universals. Mental universals exist only in the mind, while real universals exist in the external world.

William of Ockham - Biography

syllogistic logic: a type of logical argument based on deductive reasoning, in which a proposition or conclusion of some sort is inferred from other premises

Averroes - Biography

universal: concepts or natures that are true of groups of things. For example, the universal that corresponds to the species of man is humanity.

voluntarism: the belief that the goodness or badness of acts depends on our intentions rather than the acts themselves or their effects. What determines the goodness of our intentions is their conformity to right reason and God's will

William of Ockham - Biography