Duns Scotus

American  

[duhnz skoh-tuhs] / dʌnz ˈskoʊ təs /

noun

1. John Doctor Subtilis, 1265?–1308, Scottish scholastic theologian.

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Duns Scotus British  

/ ˈdʌnz ˈskɒtəs /

noun

1. John. ?1265–1308, Scottish scholastic theologian and Franciscan priest: opposed the theology of St Thomas Aquinas See also Scotism

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Example Sentences

We might take a lesson from John Duns Scotus, one of the most important Franciscan theologians, who stressed the concept of “thisness,” or “haecceity.”

From Washington Post

It was with Duns Scotus in the fourteenth century that the idea of the incarnation taking place even without the Fall achieved a definitive form as a theological opinion.

From Forbes

The necessity must have been pressing, for in 1308 he sent to their assistance the greatest schoolman of the Order, Duns Scotus.

From Project Gutenberg

Duns Scotus, a Franciscan, was more accurate in learning than Albert himself; sound, though no discoverer in physics, and deep in mathematics.

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Already the British schoolman, Duns Scotus, asked, 'whether it was impossible for matter to think?'

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