Duns Scotus’s Theory of Common Natures

This paper looks at some of Duns Scotus’s innovations in the theory of common nature. Scotus criticized the dominant scholastic theory of universals, according to which natures are of themselves individual but are somehow correctly conceived by the mind as universal, and developed a more clearly re...

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Published in:Filosofia Unisinos
Main Author: Dónall McGinley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos 2021-06-01
Online Access:https://revistas.unisinos.br/index.php/filosofia/article/view/5340