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    Robert Kilwardby

    medievalScholasticism, Augustinian-Dominican

    1215 – 1279

    Robert Kilwardby (c. 1215–1279) was an English Dominican friar, logician, and Archbishop of Canterbury whose scholastic work synthesized Augustinian theology with Aristotelian natural philosophy and logic. He composed the encyclopedic De ortu scientiarum, a systematic classification of the sciences, and wrote extensive commentaries on Aristotle's Organon and Priscian's grammar. As Archbishop, he issued the Oxford Condemnation of 1277, censuring thirty philosophical propositions in opposition to emergent Thomistic positions.

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    Notable Achievements

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    Composed De ortu scientiarum, one of the most systematic medieval classifications of the sciences

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    Wrote influential commentaries on Aristotle's entire Organon and on Priscian's Institutiones grammaticae

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    Issued the Oxford Condemnation of 1277, censuring thirty philosophical theses including aspects of Thomism

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    Served as Archbishop of Canterbury (1272–1278) and Cardinal Bishop of Porto (1278–1279)

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    Developed an Augustinian reading of Aristotelian logic that shaped medieval epistemology and the theory of relations

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    Philosophy of Language

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    Boethius' observations on genus and species may be the historical precursor of the containment principle (Co)

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    Scholasticism, Augustinian-Dominican

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