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As such, Ockham does not attack haecceities, though in so far as Scotus's account of haecceities requires both his distinctive account of the divisibility of a nature, and the formal distinction between nature and haecceity, Ockham's attacks will harm Scotus's haecceities too.
Thus, when Paul affirms that essence and being are really identical and formally different, he simply restates the thesis of the real identity and formal distinction between universals and individuals that was typical of the Realists of the late Middle Ages.
John Paul said the theologians who condemned Galileo did not recognize the formal distinction between the Bible and its interpretation.
(We might call them "visual display units" since the formal distinction between computers and televisions is on the point of dissolving).
It is just that brilliance and formal distinction, together with a touch of hubris in the title, that could divide commentators.
317 (1954); 3 Wigmore, Evidence (3d ed. 1940), § 861, n. 3. 'The formal distinction between the New York and Massachusetts procedures is often blurred in appellate opinions.
This is the formal distinction made back in 1992 in the original Climate Change Convention (signed and ratified by everyone, including the U.S). between 'Annex 1' developed countries and 'non-Annex 1' developing countries.
The medieval idea that the king should live off the revenue of his own domain persisted into the 18th century and helps to explain the formal distinction made until the reign of Francis I (1515 47) between ordinary and extraordinary finance i.e., between revenue emanating from the king's patrimonial rights and taxes raised throughout the kingdom.
Ockham's first and longest argument against Scotus takes issue with the formal distinction.
But he holds that it is inappropriate to talk of a formal distinction in this context.
