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Solutions to the problem given by the mediaevals

Solutions to the problem given by the mediaevals . Solutions to the problem given by the mediaevals. Exaggerated realism. Moderni or anti qua doctrina (Abelard).

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Solutions to the problem given by the mediaevals

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  1. Solutions to the problem given by the mediaevals

  2. Solutions to the problem given by the mediaevals Exaggerated realism Moderni or anti qua doctrina(Abelard) • Our generic and specific concepts correspond to a reality existing extramentally in objects, a subsistent reality in which individual share.

  3. Realist Plato's concept of MAN Mediaevals realist • Believed that the concept reflects a unitary substance existing extramentally , in which men participate or of which they are accidental modifications

  4. Boethius's treatment of the question

  5. Remiguis of Auxerre(841-908

  6. Odo of Tournai or odo of Cambria • If understood as meaning that plurality of individual men have a common substance which is numerically one, has as its natural consequences the conclusion that individual men differ only accidentally from one another. • Did not hesitate to draw this conclusion, maintaining that when a child comes into being God produces a new property of an already existing substance, not a new substance.

  7. Example concepts of the principle of ultra -realism

  8. St Anselm (1033-1109) • Asked how he who does not understand how a multitude of men are specifically one man, can understand how several Persons, each whom is perfect God, are one God. • On the strength of this statement St. Anselm has been called an ultra- or exaggerated realist, and indeed the natural interpretation of the statement , in the light of the theological dogma involved, that is, just as there is but one Substance or Nature in the God head, so there is but one substance or nature(i.e.numerically one) in all men.

  9. Eric (Heiricus) of Auxerre(841-76

  10. Observed that if anyone tries to maintain that White Black • Exist absolutely and without a substance in which they adhere, he will be unable to point to any corresponding reality but will have to refer to refer a Whiteman and a Blackman.

  11. Universal concepts

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