1. Roscellinus

    Roscelin of Compiègne, better known by his Latinized name Roscellinus Compendiensis or Rucelinus, was a French philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism. Wikipedia

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  2. en.wikipedia.org

    According to Otto of Freisingen, Roscellinus "was the first in our times to institute the theory of words", [4] but the chronicler of the "Historia Francia" [5] mentions before him a "magister Johannes", whose personality is much discussed and who has not yet been definitively identified.. The "sententia vocum" was one of the anti-realist solutions of the problem of universals accepted in the ...
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  4. Home > Society > Philosophy > Philosophers > R ... Reid, Thomas; Reinhold, Karl Leonhard; Ricoeur, Paul; Rochefoucauld, François de la; Ronell, Avital; Rorty, Richard; Roscelin, John; Rosmini, Antonio; Rousseau, Jean-Jacques ... Home > Society > Philosophy > Philosophers > R . Thanks to DMOZ, which built a great web directory for nearly two ...
  5. John of Salisbury refers the same opinion to Roscelin by name: "Alius ergo, consistit in vocibus, licet haec opinio cum Rucelino suo omnino jam evanuerit." {3} From these passages we infer that Roscelin was a nominalist, although the expression flatus vocis is obviously the phrase used by his opponents rather than by Roscelin himself to ...
  6. britannica.com

    Roscelin (born c. 1050, Compiègne, Fr.—died c. 1125) was a French philosopher and theologian known as the originator of an extreme form of nominalism holding that universals are nothing more than verbal expressions. His only extant work seems to be a letter to the French philosopher Peter Abelard, who studied under him at Besançon; the little that is otherwise known of Roscelin's ...
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  7. oxfordreference.com

    (d. 1125), Scholastic philosopher and theologian. He was accused of tritheism at a Council of Soissons, c.1092, but denied having taught it.An early and outstanding defender of Nominalism, Roscelin stressed that universal terms were voces (voices), and claimed to establish that a being can have no parts. These philosophical tenets led him to identify the three Persons of the Trinity as ...
  8. catholic.com

    Roscelin, a monk of Compiegne ... the first medieval philosophers regarded genera and species (substance, corporeity, animality, ... Catholic Encyclopedia, published between 1907 and 1912. It is a valuable resource for subjects related to theology, philosophy, history, culture, and more. Like most works that are more than a century old, though ...
  9. philonotes.com

    Apr 23, 2023Roscelin of Compiègne was a French philosopher and theologian who lived in the 11th and 12th centuries. He is known for his controversial views on the nature of God and the Trinity, which led to his condemnation as a heretic by the Church. Early Life and Education Roscelin was born in Compiègne, France, in the
  10. markfoster.net

    Roscelin of Compiègne (c. 1050 - c. 1125), better known by his Latinized name Roscellinus Compendiensis or Rucelinus, was a French philosopher and theologian, often regarded as the founder of nominalism. Biography Roscelin's nominalism, or Sententia Vocum Tritheism of Roscelin Notes References Roscellinus was born in Compiègne, France.
  11. encyclopedia.com

    Roscelin (rŏs´əlĬn), c.1045-c.1120, French scholastic philosopher, also called Roscellinus, Johannes Roscellinus, and Jean Roscelin.Roscelin was one of the first thinkers of the Middle Ages to deal with the problem of universals, or general concepts (see realism).Although very little of his writing has survived, he seems to have been an extreme nominalist, teaching that universals were ...
  12. to prevail.4 His comments about Roscelin and the sententia vocum inspired Aventinus in the early sixteenth century to identify Roscelin as founder of 4 'a new way of philosophizing" that came to include Abaelard, Ockham, Buridan, and Marsilius of Inghen. Aventinus considered medieval philosophy to have been an inane civil war

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