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Ideas of Nicole Oresme, by Text

[French, 1320 - 1382, Studied at the University of Paris.]

1346	On 'Physics'

III.6, dist.1	p.379	16695	Successive entities are in flux, flowing in existence, with different parts at different times
			Full Idea: For any time, some of a successive entity exists in one of its parts, and a totally different such exists in another part. …It is in continuous flux and transition, ..and flows in existence if it does not have the same existence over a whole time.
			From: Nicole Oresme (On 'Physics' [1346], III.6, dist.1), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 18.1
			A reaction: Pasnau says the successive entity is the whole made up of these changing parts, so it sounds very like the temporal stages view of Sider and Hawley.

1349	On 'Generation and Corruption'

I.2	p.411	16705	Whiteness isn't created in an alteration, because it is just this-being-white
			Full Idea: If it is said that whiteness begins to be through alteration, this does not hold, because whiteness is nothing other than this-being-white.
			From: Nicole Oresme (On 'Generation and Corruption' [1349], I.2), quoted by Robert Pasnau - Metaphysical Themes 1274-1671 19.3
			A reaction: This innocent-looking remark is dynamite, because it rejects the separability of qualities, which threatens the doctrine of Transubstantiation.