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Work #1524 · Early-to-middle

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

Siger of Brabant
c. 1265-1270 · Latin
Scholastic quaestiones (questions on Aristotle) · Latin Averroism / radical Aristotelianism / Parisian arts faculty

Siger's c. 1265-70 'Questions on De Anima III' — the radical-Averroist doctrine of the single separated intellect

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Attribute Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima (Early-to-middle)
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Finite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Immediate
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Singular
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Limited
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Reversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Non-conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

c. 1265-1270 — Paris arts faculty.

Space

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

Paris, rue du Fouarre.

Matter

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

Quaestiones-form commentary.

Observer

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

Early Siger as Parisian master of arts.

Energy

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

Radical-Aristotelian energies of the Paris arts faculty.

Information

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

Set of disputed questions on De Anima III.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Quaestiones in Tertium De Anima

The text Aquinas attacks in De Unitate Intellectus (1270); central to the thirteenth-century Aristotelianism controversy.