Peter Auriol (d. 1322) and the Later Medieval Debate on Mental Being, 1315-1350. KU Leuven
When I think of a rose, there is a sense in which that rose exists in my mind as the object of my thinking about that rose. The same is true of my thinking about a unicorn except for the fact that there is no being in external reality that is a unicorn. Even if roses uncontroversially exist “out there” and unicorns do not, what about the mental rose and the mental unicorn, which somehow exist in my mind? What kind of being do they have? In ...