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Single Idea 22125
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 4. Uninstantiated Universals
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Full Idea
Duns Scotus was a realist on the issue of universals and one of the main adversaries of Ockham's programme of nominalism.
Gist of Idea
Duns Scotus was a realist about universals
Source
report of John Duns Scotus (works [1301]) by Stephen D. Dumont - Duns Scotus p.206
Book Ref
'Shorter Routledge Encyclopaedia of Philosophy', ed/tr. Craig,Edward [Routledge 2005], p.206
A Reaction
The view of Scotus seems to be the minority view. It is hard to find thinkers who really believe that universals have an independent existence. My interest in Duns Scotus waned when I read this. How does he imagine universals?
The
24 ideas
from John Duns Scotus
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Substance is only grasped under the general heading of 'being'
[Duns Scotus]
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16660
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Are things distinct if they are both separate, or if only one of them can be separate?
[Duns Scotus, by Pasnau]
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16776
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Substance is an intrinsic thing, so parts of substances can't also be intrinsic things
[Duns Scotus]
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16650
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'Unity' is a particularly difficult word, because things can have hidden unity
[Duns Scotus]
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The haecceity is the featureless thing which gives ultimate individuality to a substance
[Duns Scotus, by Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne]
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15386
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If only the singular exists, science is impossible, as that relies on true generalities
[Duns Scotus, by Panaccio]
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15387
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If things were singular they would only differ numerically, but horse and tulip differ more than that
[Duns Scotus, by Panaccio]
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What prevents a stone from being divided into parts which are still the stone?
[Duns Scotus]
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16770
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It is absurd that there is no difference between a genuinely unified thing, and a mere aggregate
[Duns Scotus]
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16632
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We distinguish one thing from another by contradiction, because this is, and that is not
[Duns Scotus]
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16768
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Two things are different if something is true of one and not of the other
[Duns Scotus]
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16648
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Accidents must have formal being, if they are principles of real action, and of mental action and thought
[Duns Scotus]
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16614
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Matter and form give true unity; subject and accident is just unity 'per accidens'
[Duns Scotus]
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22125
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Duns Scotus was a realist about universals
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22127
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Scotus said a substantial principle of individuation [haecceitas] was needed for an essence
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22128
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Augustine's 'illumination' theory of knowledge leads to nothing but scepticism
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22121
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The concept of being has only one meaning, whether talking of universals or of God
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22122
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Being (not sensation or God) is the primary object of the intellect
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22129
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Certainty comes from the self-evident, from induction, and from self-awareness
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22130
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Scotus defended direct 'intuitive cognition', against the abstractive view
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22131
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The will retains its power for opposites, even when it is acting
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22123
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The concept of God is the unique first efficient cause, final cause, and most eminent being
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22124
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We can't infer the infinity of God from creation ex nihilo
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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22126
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Avicenna and Duns Scotus say essences have independent and prior existence
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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