Walter Burley Quotes
Walter Burley was an English scholastic philosopher and logician, fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and a leading representative of the realist tradition that stood against the rising nominalism of his contemporary William of Ockham. He produced extensive commentaries on Aristotle, a systematic treatise on the proper interpretation of logic, the De Puritate Artis Logicae, and the popular Lives and Sayings of the Philosophers. The quotes below are attributed to Walter Burley, organized by topic.
Walter Burley on Knowledge
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Attributed to Walter Burley:
“The lives of the wise are themselves a kind of philosophy.”
Walter Burley on Mind
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Attributed to Walter Burley:
“Reason is the noblest gift of nature.”
Walter Burley on Truth
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Attributed to Walter Burley:
“Universals exist in things, not apart from them.”
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Attributed to Walter Burley:
“Logic is the art of distinguishing truth from falsehood.”
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Attributed to Walter Burley:
“What is signified by a sentence is a real proposition in the world.”