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| Named Person: | John Duns Scotus; John Duns Scot; John Duns Scotus; Johannes Duns Scotus |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Richard Cross |
| ISBN: | 0198269749 9780198269748 |
| OCLC Number: | 38738807 |
| Description: | xv, 303 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction: Physics and Duns Scotus -- 2. Prime Matter -- 3. Substantial Form -- 4. The Plurality of Forms -- 5. Composite Substance -- 6. Accidents and Accidental Unity -- 7. Quantity and Continuity -- 8. The Metaphysics of Continuity -- 9. Quantity: Change and Mass -- 10. Quality: Unity, Degree, and Change -- 11. Place and Space -- 12. Motion, Time, and Continuity -- 13. The Reality of Time -- App. The Metaphysics of Generation and Corruption. |
| Responsibility: | Richard Cross. |
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Abstract:
This text contains detailed discussion and analysis of Scotus's accounts of the nature of matter; the structure of material substance; mass; the nature of space, time, and motion; quantitative and qualitative change; and the various sorts of unity which can be exhibited by different kinds of whole.
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- Duns Scotus, John, -- approximately 1266-1308.
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- Natuurfilosofie.
- Metafysica.
- Duns Scotus, John -- Ca. 1266-1308.
- Filosofia medieval -- Escócia.
- Filosofia cristã.
- Filosofia escolástica.
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- Física (filosofia;história)
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