Esistenza e verità in Ugolino da Orvieto O.E.S.A († 1973). Verum incomplexum e significabile complexe tra semantica e ontologia

During the 13th and 14th centuries, the question of scientificity of theology launched a wide debate on the nature of science and its object. In particular, William Ockham’s proposal concerning the object of a scientific knowledge was at the origin of a lively debate that, began in Oxford from the second decade of 1300, concerned the meaning of a proposition (complexum). In this context tension-filled and intellectually challenging, Hugolin of Orvieto, an Hermit friar of St. Augustin, in 1348-49 defended his personal interpretation of significabile complexe. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the first two articles of the first question of the Prologue of his Commentary on the Sentences, devoted to knowledge of verum theologicum, in which the Hermit Master exposes the basis of his theory of knowledge placed into a perspective inspired by St. Augustin