John Duns Scotus#John
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#John
John Duns Scotus · c. 1266–1308
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“The philosopher so precise they called him subtle became, centuries later, the source of the word dunce — and the mockery was exactly wrong.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“"Being" means the same thing whether we say it of God or of a grain of sand — and every individual thing has a thisness all its own that nothing else in the universe shares.”
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