Duns Scotus
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noun
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The brutish and influential work of Georg Baselitz and Sigmar Polke thrums in works like "Duns Scotus," named for a medieval philospher who insisted that existence is pure abstraction.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2015
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 ● May 20, 2012
Philosopher Ross contends that this interesting argument was stated more successfully in the 13th century by his hero, Duns Scotus.
From Time Magazine Archive
Donatus, 35, 66, 71, 88, 133, 228 Doomsday Book, 30, 39, 43, 50 Dorchester, 168 Drapers’ Guild, 154 Duns Scotus, 134, 187 Dunstable, 85, 96, 105, 171, 221 Dunstan, Archbishop, 16, 33 et seq.,
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William
We have another very striking example of it in the insoluble obscurity in which the biographers of the renowned Duns Scotus have left the question of his birthplace and nationality.
From Saint Bonaventure The Seraphic Doctor Minister-General of the Franciscan Order by Costelloe, Laurence
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