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Simon of Faversham
Simon of Faversham

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[Revised entry by Ana María Mora-Márquez on October 15, 2024.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, notes.html]
Simon of Faversham (d 1306) was a thirteenth-century British scholar, mainly known as a commentator on Aristotle’s logic and natural philosophy. He is considered a modist, among other things because of his use of the notions of modi praedicandi and modi essendi in his commentary on Aristotle’s Categories (cf. Marmo 1999). Simon’s work as an Aristotelian commentator heavily relies on Albert the Great’s paraphrases on the Aristotelian corpus. His question-commentaries…

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