biography
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Duns Scotus, Johannes
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known as Doctor Subtilis (Lat ‘the Subtle Doctor’)
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pronunciation:
[duhnz skohtus]
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| male
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| lived:
| (c.1265–1308)
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| biography:
| Mediaeval philosopher and theologian, probably born in Maxton, Scottish Borders, SE Scotland, UK. He became a Franciscan, studied at Oxford, and lectured there. His works are chiefly commentaries on the Bible, Aristotle, and the Sentences of Peter Lombard. A critic of preceding scholasticism, his dialectical skill gained him his nickname; but his defence of the papacy led to his ideas being ridiculed at the Reformation (hence the word dunce). |
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