Not because they were hugely groundbreaking for me personally, but because they were expressed so very clearly and ingeniously. The most interesting bits of this compilation were the chapters on logic and mental acts. When one thinks about it, Ockham seemed to be paving the way for Kant's own psychological disquisitions and, more obviously, Wittgenstein's linguistic world-building and his propositional truths – a nice gesture of relevance to an obscure medieval Franciscan. First of all, his introduction of nominalism was a great feat of intelligence, refuting the strange idea about understanding and forms of Aristotle & co., instead coming up with the plausible explanation that us humans merely combine our intuitions into concepts, wherewith we discuss, propose and research. Ockham seems to bring some common sense and keen perspicacity where Aquinas pontificated about all kinds of towering systems and endless subdivisions.
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