| The SCOTUS struck a big blow for digital copyright protections this morning. |
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| Scotus then asks us to shift from thinking about an actual quantitative infinity to thinking about an actual qualitative infinity. |
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| In the summer of 1872 he read Duns Scotus, a medieval schoolman, for the first time. |
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| An exhibition of John Duns Scotus texts, and concerning the Province of the Most Holy Redeemer, was arranged for the occasion. |
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| For Scotus the clearest expression of natural law is the decalogue, which directs all human actions towards the attainment of beatitude. |
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| Scotus formulates a new conception of transcendentality, according to which a transcendental has no predicate above it except being. |
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| So Scotus claims that pure perfection can be predicated of God. |
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| Erasmus, in his Praise of Folly, criticized him together with Duns Scotus as fuelling unnessary controversies inside the Church. |
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| Scotus elaborates a distinct view on hylomorphism, with three important strong theses that differentiate him. |
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| Scotus says that while that is true, it is utterly manifest that things are produced or effected. |
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| But in order to respond, Scotus makes a modal move and reworks the argument. |
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| Scotus argued against the version of illuminationism that had been defended earlier in the century by Henry of Ghent. |
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| The twentieth century saw a resurgence of interest in Scotus, with a range of assessments of his thought. |
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| His sacramentalism, molded by Scotus and the Spiritual Exercises, gave him warrant for the use of the senses. |
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| To Scotus more than to any other I owe my interpretation of the world, not that I am a Scotist, God forbid. |
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| Some fourteenth-century thinkers like Scotus and Ockham developed the idea that there could be another indifferent act beyond this dichotomy. |
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| The story about Duns Scotus being buried alive, in the absence of his servant who alone knew of his susceptibility to coma, is probably a myth. |
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| By the time of Scotus, these 'commentaries' on the Sentences were no longer literal commentaries. |
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| Scotus wrote purely philosophical and logical works at an early stage of his career, consisting of commentaries on Aristotle's Organon. |
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| A number of works once believed to have been written by Scotus are now known to have been misattributed. |
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| Scotus argued that we cannot conceive of what it is to be something, without conceiving it as existing. |
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| For Scotus, the axiom stating that only the individual exists is a dominating principle of the understanding of reality. |
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| In the following arguments, Scotus does not attempt to contradict Aristotle. |
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| For one thing, Scotus has received interest from secular philosophers such as Peter King, Gyula Klima, Paul Vincent Spade, and others. |
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| For some today, Scotus is one of the most important Franciscan theologians and the founder of Scotism, a special form of Scholasticism. |
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| Alongside the classics of Franciscan thought, such as Bonaventure and Scotus, consideration has also been given to David of Augsburg, Angela of Foligno, Dietrich Kolde, Caritas Pirckheimer and Olivier Messiaen, among others. |
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| Note, of course, that Scotus's account of the common nature also entails something stronger than Adams is proposing: indeed, it entails precisely the sort of minimal hypostatization that Scotus advocates. |
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| Abstractive cognition could provide me with an abstract concept of thinking about Scotus, but I need intuitive cognition to know that I am in fact exemplifying that concept right this minute. |
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| The Irish philosopher and theologian Johannes Scotus Eriugena was considered one of the leading intellectuals of his early Middle Ages. |
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| Ockham incorporated much of the work of some previous theologians, especially John Duns Scotus. |
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| Scotus also developed a complex argument for the existence of God, and argued for the Immaculate Conception of Mary. |
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| Duns Scotus received the religious habit of the Friars Minor at Dumfries, where his uncle, Elias Duns, was guardian. |
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| Duns Scotus was back in Paris before the end of 1304, probably returning in May. |
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| The most significant Irish intellectual of the early monastic period was the 9th century Johannes Scotus Eriugena, an outstanding philosopher in terms of originality. |
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| The contemporary Annals of Ulster describe him as the Augustus of north-western Europe, and the Irish chronicler Marianus Scotus claims that Brian was slain while at prayer. |
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| The colophon of Codex 66 of Merton College, Oxford says that Scotus was also at Cambridge, but we do not know for certain if this is true, or, if it was, when he was there. |
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| Thus the claim that Martin Heidegger wrote his Habilitationsschrift on Scotus is only half true, as the second part is actually based on the work by Erfurt. |
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| For Aquinas, it was matter that distinguished us as individuals, but for Scotus, each person had its own individual essence or haecceity that made him unique. |
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| Scotus explains the differences between the two and offers proofs for the conclusion that an infinity of essentially order causes in a series is impossible. |
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| Scotus acknowledges two objections and deals with them accordingly. |
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| Prominent opponents of various aspects of the scholastic mainstream included Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Peter Damian, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the Victorines. |
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| By then, the natural science contained in these texts began to be extended by notable scholastics such as Robert Grosseteste, Roger Bacon, Albertus Magnus and Duns Scotus. |
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