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Title: Implicit Knowledge.
Subtitle: Being as First Known in Peter of Oriol
Author(s): GORIS, W.
Journal: Recherches de Théologie et Philosophie Médiévales
Volume: 69    Issue: 1   Date: 2002   
Pages: 33-65
DOI: 10.2143/RTPM.69.1.963

Abstract :
The doctrine of being developed by the Franciscan theologian Peter of Oriol (Petrus Aureoli, 1280-1322)1is highly original. The present contribution will analyse this doctrine from a distinct point of view. It is mainly interested in Aureoli's description of the concept of being as an implicit concept and reads his doctrine of being exclusively in this regard. The interest of the idea that the concept of being is entirely implicit lies in the particularity that the Franciscan also holds the concept of being to be the first concept known by reason. Peter of Oriol hence presents us with a doctrine of implicit knowledge of being as the unannullable condition, the conditio sine qua non of explicit knowledge.

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