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Single Idea 22129
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / B. Certain Knowledge / 1. Certainty
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Full Idea
Duns Scotus grounded certitude in the knowledge of self-evident propositions, induction, and awareness of our own state.
Gist of Idea
Certainty comes from the self-evident, from induction, and from self-awareness
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
Induction looks like the weak link here.
The
24 ideas
from John Duns Scotus
16626
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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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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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13094
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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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10919
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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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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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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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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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22128
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Augustine's 'illumination' theory of knowledge leads to nothing but scepticism
[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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22125
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Duns Scotus was a realist about universals
[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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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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22126
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Avicenna and Duns Scotus say essences have independent and prior existence
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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