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SCOTUS

abbr.
Supreme Court of the United States
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Scotus

(ˈskəʊtəs)
n
(Biography) See Duns Scotus
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Duns Sco•tus

(dʌnz ˈskoʊ təs)
n.
John ( “Doctor Subtilis” ), 1265?–1308, Scottish scholastic theologian.
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But Aristotle was out of all patience with the account I gave him of Scotus and Ramus, as I presented them to him; and he asked them, "whether the rest of the tribe were as great dunces as themselves?"
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I have read Ockham, Bradwardine, and other of the schoolmen, together with the learned Duns Scotus and the book of the holy Aquinas."
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Kavanaugh's appointment was especially contentious because he will hold the swing vote among the nine Scotus justices who are equally divided into four conservatives and four liberals.
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However, SCOTUS reviewed that decision and ruled the special master should reconsider Florida's argument that a cap in Georgia's water consumption could benefit Florida's Apalachicola Bay.
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This crucial dimension of the term marks its overlap with the theology of Duns Scotus, in particular with his concept of haecceitas ("thisness").
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The book contains a helpful introduction that explains Scotus's arguments and a variety of terms with which Scotus expects his reader to be familiar, for example, predication in quid and in quale.
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Remarkably, the December 2017 SCOTUS Order contains only five sentences.
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As troubling as that case is, the other case turned away by SCOTUS, Kolbe v.
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