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- ↑ E. Waldschütz (dir.), Großes Werklexikon der Philosophie, vol. 1, Stuttgart, 1999, "Fredegisus Turonensis", p. 511
- ↑ Frédegis de Tours.
- ↑ PDF here
- ↑ In F. A. Lange’s History of Materialism , First Book, Second Section, Chapter 2, he mentioned that Fridugisus confused "subjective and objective elements in our conception of things." Lange wrote, "We find an interesting example of this [confusion] in Fredegisus [sic], a pupil of Alcuin’s, who honoured Charles the Great with a theological epistle 'De Nihilo et Tenebris [Of Nothing and Darkness]', in which that 'Nothing' out of which God created the world is explained as an actually existing entity, and that for the extremely simple reason that every name refers to some corresponding thing." In this way, Fridugisus mistook a name (Nothing) that existed in his brain for something in the world outside his brain.
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Fredegis of Tours". Catholic Encyclopedia . New York: Robert Appleton Company.
