Vivarium, Vol. 45, No. 2/3, Special Issue: The Many Roots of Medieval Logic: The Aristotelian and the Non-Aristotelian Traditions (2007), pp. 238-252 (15 pages) The notion of 'symbol' in Eriugena's ...

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