Richard Kilvington (c. 1302-1361) was an

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. His surviving works are lecture notes from the 1320s and 1330s. He was a Fellow of

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. He was involved in a controversy over the nature of the

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. In the 1340s he worked for

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.Jorge J. E. Gracia, Timothy B. Noone, ''A Companion to Philosophy in the Middle Ages'' (2003), p. 571.

References

* Barbara Ensign Kretzmann,

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(eds), ''The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington'', critical edition of the Latin text, New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. * Barbara Ensign Kretzmann,

(eds), ''The Sophismata of Richard Kilvington'', introduction, translation, and commentary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

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