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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 philosophical influence was most significant in three areas. First and foremost were his contributions to the development of Thomistic natural law, especially concerning the development of individual, subjective rights within a natural law moral and legal framework. Second was his recognition that objects in free fall accelerate uniformly, which has been shown to have influenced Galileo’s thinking about free fall. Third was his infusing the logic of terms and propositions with sign theory, which was an important step to the development of semiotics and the logic of ideas, which subsumed logic to epistemology and dominated logical theorizing for nearly 300 years.
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Hill, B. (2020). Domingo de Soto. In: Lagerlund, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Medieval Philosophy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1665-7_146
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