Something old and pretentious.
OCKHAM SHAVING
FIRST INTENTION
William shaves the faith from
the reason of his face.
“Musn’t complicate the chin
with plurality of hair…
to do so would be vain.”
He finds all the pieces unique
in the basin and laughs—
“I think I will name that one Aquinas”
SECOND INTENTION
William assigns Aquinas
the symbol “hair”
and it begins to loose significance
resembling the other floating
objects in the white water.
Aquinas becomes hair.
No longer particular or individual.
“What a nominal idea,” William says.
As he dumps the basin of universals from
his second story window,
they no longer exist.
It is easier to rid ourselves of the namless.
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