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Article: Hoffmann, Tobias. Creatura intellecta. Die Ideen und Possibilien bei Duns Scotus mit Ausblick auf Franz von Mayronis, Poncius und Mastrius.(Book Review)
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- The Review of Metaphysics
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- March 1, 2004
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HOFFMANN, Tobias. Creatura intellecta. Die Ideen und Possibilien bei Duns Scotus mit Ausblick auf Franz von Mayronis, Poncius und Mastrius. Beitrage zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mittelalters, N.F., vol. 60. Munster: Aschendorff, 2002. iv + 356 pp. Cloth, 46.00 [euro]--Tobias Hoffmann has written an intelligent and important book. It is a must-read for scholars of medieval Latin philosophy and an ought-to-read for anyone interested in questions of natural necessity, contingency, or modality. Hoffmann's topic is the web of philosophical issues implicated in considering God's knowledge of creatures--that is, everything but himself--and, at least in ...