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The Fount of Philosophy

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Also known as: “Fons philosophiae”

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In Godfrey of Saint-Victor
…his other notable work, the Fons philosophiae (c. 1176; “The Fount of Philosophy”), Godfrey, in rhymed verse, proposed a classification of learning and considered the controversy between Realists and Nominalists (who held that ideas were only names, not real things) over the problem of universal concepts. Fons philosophiae is an…
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