Walter Burley
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14th century English scholastic philosopher and logician
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Walter Burley's Degrees
- Bachelors Arts University of Oxford
- Masters Arts University of Oxford
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Walter Burley was an English scholastic philosopher and logician with at least 50 works attributed to him. He studied under Thomas Wilton and received his Master of Arts degree in 1301, and was a fellow of Merton College, Oxford until about 1310. He then spent sixteen years in Paris, becoming a fellow of the Sorbonne by 1324, before spending 17 years as a clerical courtier in England and Avignon. Burley disagreed with William of Ockham on a number of points concerning logic and natural philosophy. He was known as the Doctor Planus and Perspicuus.
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