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Duns Scotus

noun
1.
Scottish theologian who was very influential in the Middle Ages (1265-1308).  Synonym: John Duns Scotus.





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"Duns Scotus" Quotes from Famous Books



... serves the same end. M. Le Roy and the other Christian pragmatists have returned to the Nominalism of Duns Scotus. The following words of Frassen, one of Scotus' disciples, might serve as a motto for the ...
— Outspoken Essays • William Ralph Inge
... the Devil. The admiral, however, was not a man to be much influenced by the sayings of the unthoughtful and the unlearned. He fortified himself by references to St. Isidro, Beda, Strabo, St. Ambrose, and Duns Scotus, and held stoutly to the conclusion that he had discovered the site of the earthly Paradise. It is said, that he exclaimed to his men, that they were in the richest country in ...
— The Life of Columbus • Arthur Helps


Words linked to "Duns Scotus" :   theologian, theologizer, theologiser, theologist


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