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,Harjeet Singh Gill, ''Signification in language and culture'', Indian Institute of Advanced Study, 2002, p. 109. a teacher at the

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and then the

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, where he taught

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. He was a Fellow of

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from about 1288. He attacked some of Burley's theses. He wrote on and rejected the theory of

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, provoking a reply by

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. In discussing the

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, he connects the views of

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and

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.J. M. M. H. Thijssen, ''The Response to Thomas'' p. 91 in Jozef Wissink (editor), ''The Eternity of the World in the Thought of Thomas Aquinas and His Contemporaries'' (1990)

References

*Lauge O. Nielsen, ''The Debate between Peter Auriol and Thomas Wylton on Theology and Virtue'', Vivarium, Volume 38, Number 1, 2000, 35-98 *Cecilia Trifogli, ''Thomas Wylton on Final Causality'', in Alexander Fidora (editor), ''Erfahrung und Beweis: Die Wissenschaften Von Der Natur Im 13. und 14. Jahrhundert'' (2007)

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