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Domingo de Soto

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Domingo de Soto (1494–1560) was a sixteenth-century Paris-trained Spanish theologian. He is seldom remembered now, but his work was instrumental in the Thomistic revival of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His influence was most significant in three areas. First, his recognition that objects in free fall accelerate uniformly has been shown to have influenced Galileo’s thinking about motion. Second, his addressing the logic of terms and propositions from within the conceptual framework of sign theory was an important step toward the development of semiotics and the logic of ideas, which subsumed logic with epistemology and dominated logical theorizing for almost the next 300 years. Third, he played a significant role in the development of Thomistic natural law theory, which resulted in the systematization and synthesis of Roman and canon law as well as in the spread of the natural law tradition into the Netherlands and Great Britain.

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Hill, B. (2011). Domingo de Soto. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-9729-4_146

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