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The changing role ofentia rationis in mediaeval semantics and ontology: A comparative study with a reconstruction

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Klima, G. The changing role ofentia rationis in mediaeval semantics and ontology: A comparative study with a reconstruction. Synthese 96, 25–58 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01063801

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