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Document Details : Title: Henry of Ghent's Metaphysics of Number and its Critics Author(s): MAJCHEREK, Kamil Journal: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales Volume: 92 Issue: 2 Date: 2025 Pages: 245-279 DOI: 10.2143/RTPM.92.2.3295160 Abstract : The second half of the thirteenth century in the Latin West witnessed an unprecedented rise of interest in the metaphysical status of number. The key issue in the debate that ensued was the question of whether a number is an entity distinct from the numbered things. Henry of Ghent was one of the first Parisian thinkers in the Theology Faculty to have tackled this issue explicitly. His view proved to be extremely influential but also equally controversial. Henry advances a largely reductionist view of number, on which a number does not add any new form over and above the form of the continuum out of whose division it arose. This paper provides the first analysis and assessment of Henry’s position as well as its later critical reception. |
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