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- Title
Change and Contradiction in Henry of Ghent.
- Authors
Knuuttila, Simo
- Abstract
Hugh of Novocastro, Landolfo Caracciolo, John Baconthorpe, and some other medieval authors argued that there are real contradictions in nature. The background of this early fourteenth-century theory was the Aristotelian question of how to determine the instant of change between p and ~p. The argument was that these are simultaneously true at the temporal instant of change if it is an instant of changing. The author's aim is to discuss the background of this view in Henry of Ghent's theory of instantaneous change from potentiality to actuality at that very instant.
- Subjects
CHANGE; MEDIEVAL philosophers; ARISTOTELIANISM (Philosophy); POTENTIALITY theory (Philosophy); ACTUALITY theory (Philosophy)
- Publication
Vivarium, 2017, Vol 55, Issue 1-3, p22
- ISSN
0042-7543
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/15685349-12341331