137-145 Reading Flashcards
who was John Dunn Scotus
empiricist with ingenious proposal for version of immanent realism that avoids logical difficulties Abelard pointed out
what did Scotus reason
if he could find new interpretation of what it means to be essentially the same’ he could escape Abelard’s conclusion
what did scotus carve out in his commentary on sentences
compromise between immanent and transcendent realism
what is the unity Scotus points out in his spassage
a new kind of essential sameness (it is metaphysically real)
what does Scotus want his passage to provide
basis for the categories
what does Scotus insist on in his passage
insists that metaphysical unity itself is not universal and that it is not itself particular
what does scotus keep his metaphsyical unity from reducing to
an imaginary concept in the mind by asserting that it belongs to a nature in virtue itself
what is unity of a particular also known as
numerical identity
what was Scotus’ nickname
subtle doctor
how does Scotus challenge Abelard’s assumption
by insisting instead that socrates and Brunelles share lesser metaphysical unity of animality
who was the leading critic of Scotus
William Franciscan
what did Franciscan think
That Abelard’s nominalism is better than Scotus immanent realism
what do Ockham’s arguments hinge on
principle of simplicity
