"Notitia intuitiva" and "complexe significabile" at Paris in the 1340s: From Alphonsus Vargas Toletanus to Peter Ceffons

I test the hypothesis of Damasus Trapp, regarding a close doctrinal dialogue between Augustinian Hermits and Cistercians just before 1350. I arrive to some doubts, after analyzing in detail the issues of intuitive cognition and the complexe significabile, in which the Augustinian Hugolino of Orvieto and the Cistercian Pierre Ceffons do not share the ideas of the Agustinian Gregory of Rimini or the Cistercian John of Mirecourt. Even in the case of the Augustinian Alfonsus Vargas of Toledo, who is known to have introduced four types of intuitive cognition, I point out that he is more influenced by the earlier Oxonian Franciscan Walter Chatton than by the Parisian Augustinian Gregory of Rimini. Regarding the thesis that the complexe significabile is nihil, Ceffons offers interesting testimony concerning the reception of this doctrine, but he does not adopt any definitive position, ostensibly being too afraid of possible condemnation. So, Cistencians and Augustinians developed similar interests in the theory of knowledge, but this was not on the basis of a dialogue or a doctrinal exchange, but more because this was a general trend among the sententiarii.