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Definition of Scotist

Scotist
Scotist Sco"tist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of (Joannes) Duns Scotus, the Franciscan scholastic (d. 1308), who maintained certain doctrines in philosophy and theology, in opposition to the Thomists, or followers of Thomas Aquinas, the Dominican scholastic.

Meaning of Scotist from wikipedia

- exaggeration of some propositions of Scotus. Scotist Formalism is the direct opposite of Nominalism, and the Scotists were at one with the Thomists in combatting...
- between Franciscans and Dominicans during the Middle Ages, with Franciscan 'Scotists' in its favour and Dominican 'Thomists' against it. The English ecclesiastic...
- Scotistic realism (also Scotist realism or Scotist formalism) is the Scotist position on the problem of universals. It is a form of moderate realism, which...
- and Scotus "it is still possible to view Descartes as borrowing from a Scotist Voluntarist tradition". Although the uncertain authorship of this most...
- theologians in the late Middle Ages were thus divided between so-called Scotists and Ockhamists. Fourteenth century followers included Francis of Mayrone...
- distinction", as distinguished from the Thomistic "virtual distinction" and the Scotist "formal distinction". Romanides suspects that Barlaam accepted a "formal...
- the well-known mediaeval philosophers are), but rather an Aristotelic-Scotist philosopher, that is more in the line of John Duns Scotus. Vella was born...
- was a Catalan Franciscan philosopher and theologian. He was an eminent Scotist who died while in prison on charges of sorcery. Peter was born in Catalonia...
- d'Orbellis was a French Franciscan theologian and philosopher, of the Scotist school. He was born about 1400. He seems to have entered the monastery...
- Paul Scriptoris (ca. 1460 – 1505), a German Franciscan mathematician and Scotist Johannes Brenz (1499–1570), Lutheran theologian and the Protestant Reformer...