His namesake school of philosophy opposed the Thomists, who instead followed his predecessor Thomas Aquinas.
This philosopher argued that individuality depends on "haecceitas," the ultimate reality of a form, instead of the quantity of matter. He postulated the existence of a being with "triple primacy," which is first in efficient causality, final causality, and pre-eminence, and argued that God's infinity is a qualitative measure of intrinsic perfection rather than a simply quantitative one. He wrote works such as De primo principio, while his Opus Oxoniense, also known as his Ordinatio, was a commentary on Lombard's Sentences that he wrote at Oxford. His namesake school of philosophy opposed the Thomists, who instead followed his predecessor Thomas Aquinas. FTP, name this Scottish scholastic philosopher known as the "subtle doctor."
This philosopher argued that individuality depends on "haecceitas," the ultimate reality of a form, instead of the quantity of matter.
John {Duns Scotus}