Polock in the concert.

Papu.

Carla Little.

Polock Band.

Polock's picture by Carla Little.

In the Polock's concert.

Polock's concert.

On Saturday 27 December 2008 I went with some friends at the Polock concert at the Wah Wah local in Valencia. It was the anniversary of Polock. Polock is a group of Valencia but they sing in English. It’s a proyect created by Papu but consolidated as a band with the integration of Marc, Alberto, Sebas and Pablo. Papu is Carla's boyfriend, she is my friend and she is the Polock's art work and desing. I like very much her job and i bought a Polock's t-shirt. I liked the concert very much. Carla designed a masks and played photos in te concert(http://www.flickr.com/polockband). My friends and my were all the time in the front line, the most fun was at the end of the concert because Carla Little and the band made a raffle and i won a poster and my friend Luis won a t-shirt as the mine and a EP with the songs. My friend Andrea came to my home to sleep, because it was very late and my cousin Paula and her boyfriend took us home.

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Photos and Draws by: Carla Little.

WILLIAM OCKHAM ( c.1287-1347 ).

He was a Franciscan friar, among the most prominent figures in the history of philosophy during the High Middle Ages.

He is best known today for his principle know as " Ockham Razor ": "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity". He is important not inly in metaphysics, also in other areas of medieval philosophy-logic, physics or natural philosophy, ethics, political and theology.

LIFE:

Ockham was born in 1287 in Surrey. He studied at Oxford and early he entered the Order of St.Francis.

Denounced by Pope John XXII for dangerous teachings, he was held in house detention for four years in Avignon ( France ), while the ortodoxy of his writings was examined.

After Ockham fled to Munich in 1328 to seek the protection of Louis IV and he wrote the papacy and defended the emperor his death.

He died in Munich, apparently of the plague, while seeking reconciliation with Pope Clement VI.

WRITINGS:

Ockham´s writings are divided in "academic" and the "political". Most important writings are:

- Commentary on the Sentences of Peter Lombard.

- Seven Quodlibets.

- Summa of Logic.

- Questions on Aristoteles Books of the Physics.

- Eight Questions on the Power of the pope.

- Dialogue.

REFERENCES IN RECENT POPULAR CULTURE:

- In the novel " The Name of the Rose " by Umberto Eco, the monastic detective uses logic in the manner of Ockham and, like him, has faced charges og heresy.

- In a episode of The X-Files, Fox Mulder deriddes Ockham´s Razor.

- In 1997, the movie Contact, starring Jodie Foster, Ockham´s razor is used to explain the doubts she has over the existence of God.

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Credits:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ockham/