Talk:British philosophy

Orphaned references in British philosophy
I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of British philosophy's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "commentary": From Occam's razor: Johannes Poncius’s commentary on John Duns Scotus's Opus Oxoniense, book III, dist. 34, q. 1. in John Duns Scotus Opera Omnia, vol.15, Ed. Luke Wadding, Louvain (1639), reprinted Paris: Vives, (1894) p.483a From John Punch (theologian): Johannes Poncius’s commentary on John Duns Scotus's Opus Oxoniense, book III, dist. 34, q. 1. in John Duns Scotus Opera Omnia, vol.15, Ed. Luke Wadding, Louvain (1639), reprinted Paris: Vives, (1894) p.483a 

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT ⚡ 14:37, 17 February 2016 (UTC)


 * '''AN ORIGINAL'S REFERENCE TANGLE TRIVIAL BUT CLARIFIED?"
 * '''AN ORIGINAL'S REFERENCE TANGLE TRIVIAL BUT CLARIFIED?"


 * Dear AnomieBOT, thank you!
 * DEAR SENTIENT ONES,
 * My apologies for the orphan I created when copy-pasting the passage concerned from the main article Occam's razor.
 * I have corrected the orignal error, but in doing so was prompted to change the wording slightly, as well as the position in the text of the reference, in order to remove an ambiguity (present in the original). However I find I am now unclear which of the references given in the original passage refers to the incorrect wording of the principle itself and which to the argument that Punch was making about that and the scholastics.
 * The main article on Occam's Razor states that Occam did not use the phrase which appeared here to describe the principle. My edit aimed to address this and to get rid of the trivialising summary attached to it.
 * The only question remaining then is which of the "commentary" references in the main article refers to Punch's origination of the phrase and which to Punch's (NOT Occam's) claims for that. As I have no interest in Punch the question appears trivial as long as the reference I retained provides validation of the claim that Punch was the originator.  While it seems clear from the verifiable works of Occam that are provided, that the phraseology Occam himself used does not accord with Punch's phrasing, it would be preferable to be able to point to the source of it rather than to its absence, the former being easier to verify.  The only alternative would be to delete the references to Punch.  I am not in a position to chase down the three references so have left it as is.
 * Hope that clarifies!
 * LookingGlass (talk) 10:24, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

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