fictum

To begin with, he adopted what is known as the fictum-theory, a theory according to which universals have no “real” existence at all in the Aristotelian categories, but instead are purely

William of Ockham Spade, Paul Vincent 2006

The Latin for a construction is fictum, from fictio.

April 11th, 2009 m_francis 2009

Ockham's early theory of concepts, often dubbed ˜the fictum theory™, was probably influenced in some measure by the work or at least the terminology of Peter Auriol.

Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

In short, the fictum theory is not consistent with direct realism, which was a hallmark of Ockhamist epistemology.

Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

In response to Chatton's criticism and his positive alternative, Ockham abandoned his fictum theory, at first with some hesitation, wavering between this early theory and Chatton's new intellectio model, subsequently embracing it more fully, and finally, in his most mature philosophical reflection on the topic, even arguing against the old fictum theory.

Walter Chatton Keele, Rondo 2007

For Ockham, the term signifies that class, the form being no more than a fictum (a figment of the mind) or (in his later works) the mental act (of conceiving of those things) itself.

Medieval Theories: Properties of Terms Read, Stephen 2006

AVE = occurs in Ovid only here and at _RA_ 639-40 'nec ueniat seruus, nec flens ancillula fictum/suppliciter dominae nomine dicat "aue!"', and is not common in writing.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Quid me accusas, si facio officium meum? nam neque fictum usquamst neque pictum neque scriptum in poematis ubi lena bene agat cum quiquam amante, quae frugi esse volt.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

Colb. and Eustathius, who renders Justus nihil habet fictum sicut Job.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

St. Bernard says, _Sapiens nummularius est Deus: nummum fictum non recipiet_; 'A cunning money-changer is God: he will take in no base coin. '

The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855