He wrote "Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate" or maybe "Entia non sunt
multiplicanda praeter necessititem."

Well, actually he apparently didn't write anything like that (although he must
have said it from time to time). It is, however, a paraphrase of a phrase by
Aristotle.

See [www.csicop.org]


[paedpsych.jk.uni-linz.ac.at]...
which also attributes similar sayings to Duns Scotus, who taught him.

This is a useful site on him:
[pespmc1.vub.ac.be]


[www.perlmonks.org]

Confused enough now? Or does that explain what you wanted to know (without
giving a page reference, so to speak).

Doug Weller

Director The Hall of Ma'at
Doug's Skeptical Archaeology site::
[www.ramtops.co.uk]