ABSTRACT
Scotus eliminates analogy and allows for only direct, univocal signification of God. The direct relation of the sign to the res in the new semantic paradigm enables God to be signified as infinite being, even though there is no adequate way for finite humans to understand or conceive him-and no common ratio between God and creatures. The univocal concept of being that is common to God and creatures in people intention correspond to no common property in reality. Scotus initiates a strong dissociation of signification from intellection as two distinct operations of thought. The mind can forget its concern for the otherness of reality as such and can focus simply on the sphere that it defines for itself and manages through its own inventions in its own proper domain. Of course, any treatment of God as an object is pure artifice.
