292: Nominalism and William of Ockham

Classical Stuff You Should Know

A.J. Hanenburg

Books, Arts, Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 58 minutes

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In this episode, we learn about William of Ockham's ridiculous notion that our words don't mean anything. Then why am I even writing this, WILLIAM. WHY DO WE EVEN TALK. You can tell that I (A.J.) am a big fan of this theory.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Classical Stuff You Should Know, a podcast about books and classical stuff and things you should know.
0:15.1	My name is Thomas Magby.
0:16.4	I am joined as always by Mr. Graham Donaldson.
0:19.4	Hello.
0:19.9	And Mr. A.J. Hanenberg. That's me. And today we were talking about one of my favorite things from growing up. Oh, my word. I always looked forward to the, when the book, when the book fair would come to school and that we would get, they would open up the books. We'd look around and we'd say, you know, it was probably like 30 books.
0:38.0	It's nothing huge.
0:38.9	But it always felt to me like just, it was like a carnival, right, being brought out. We're talking about the Scholastic book fairs. We're just talking about the Scholastic book fairs. And I'm very excited. Do people still do those? Is that still a, like Veritas doesn't do that. No, we do have a book fair.
0:52.8	We have a book fair.
0:53.6	Does Scholastic come out?
0:54.7	No, no, it's, I don't know,
0:56.5	Canon or Press or it's... Philith, like Veritas doesn't do that. No, we do have a book fair. We have a book fair. Does Scholastic come out?
0:54.7	No, no.
0:55.2	It's, I don't know, Canon or Press or it's...
0:58.3	Wait, really?
0:58.7	And they come in and show their books?
0:59.5	Veritas.
1:00.1	Yeah, we fill the lysium up. Yeah. That's super cool. And the kids... Is that a recent thing? We didn't used to do that.
1:04.8	We didn't used to do that.
1:05.7	Yeah.
1:05.9	It's recent.
1:06.3	That's awesome.
1:06.8	That's really cool.
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