Gregory of Rimini
Gregory of Rimini was a man against the world. ... Because Gregory’s writings are so vast I want to focus on only a few, such as the foreknowledge of God and contingency of the world, predestination, and cognition. Gregory’s arguments on Foreknowledge and Contingency was directed mostly to Peter Auriol and then to Oxford theologians. ... Gregory noticed that most of Auriol theory came from Aristotle’s theory of future contingencies. ... Rimini’s defense was a detailed set of regulations for propositions. ... The argument of Contingency between Auriol and Rimini started out with this question: given an absolutely simple and necessary God, what is the source of contingency? ... Rimini believed in Scriptural prophecy and persuaded by the deduction that the Principle of Bivalence holds fast universally. ... Rimini being the natural philosopher that he is brings his consistency over to the matters of the mind, by stating that the universals are formed by the soul and only after the mind has previous apprehensions of singular things. ... Rimini uses dichotomy (the division into two parts) when it comes to cognition, intuitive (the soul) and abstracts (the mind). Rimini argues against the Venerable Inceptor’s claim that through intuitive cognition one could determine whether a thing does not exist. Rimini states that one can have intuitive cognition of an object that does not exist ( i.