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PETRUS AUREOLUS (OR10L)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 336 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PETRUS AUREOLUS (OR10L)  , scholastic philosopher and

monk of the Franciscan order, lived in the latter
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half of the r3th century, and died in Paris in 1321 just after his appointment as archbishop of
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Aix . He was one of the first to attack the realist doctrines of
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Duns Scotus, and is interesting mainly as the precursor of William of Occam in his revival of Nominalism . His ability earned for him the titles of Doctor Facundus and Doctor Abundans .

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