Ralph McInerny
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"I shall omit to speak about genera and species, as to whether they subsist (in the nature of things) or in mere conceptions only; whether also if subsistent, they are bodies or incorporeal, and whether they are separate from, or in, sensibles, and subsist about these, for such a treatise is most profound, and requires another more extensive investigation". --Porphyry on the problem of universals in the Isagoge, translation by Boethius, English translation quoted in A History of Western Philosophy (McInerny and Caponigri), p. 357, Ralph McInerny, Aloysius Robert Caponigri "Mox de generibus et speciebus, illud quidem sive subsistant, sive in solis nudis intellectibus posita sint, sive subsistentia corporalia sint an incorporalia, et utrum separata a sensibilihus an in sensibilibus posita et circa haec consistentia, dicere reeusabo: altissimum enim negotium est hujusmodi et majoris egens inquisitionis." -- Isagoge |
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