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every hand, laws of laws, laws of laws of laws,
and left experience a little too much out
of account. And yet Scotus never did leave
individuals out of account. Only he was not
an experimental philosopher. He was, on
the contrary a monk, sworn to separate
himself from the things of this world. Now the
things of this world and the Papacy, which
at that day appeared to the logician as
a wholly inconsistent meddling of general
ideas with existences came into conflict,
and Ockham stood up manfully for experience
and for positive fact. Very well; Ockhamism became
a great tradition. The tradition was
that generals are mere words, and have
no reality. James Mill, the father of John Stuart