GOFFREDO di FONTAINES. - Secular master at the University of Paris from 1283 to 1296, d. after 1303. He is the author of fifteen Quodlibeta and of Quaestiones ordinariae (editions by M. de Wulf, A. Pelzer, J. Hoffmann, and O. Lottin in the collection Les philosophes belges of Louvain from 1904 to 1937).
An admirer of St. Thomas, he considered the condemnation of 1277 unjustified. He was, however, an independent disciple: while following St. Thomas in the theory of knowledge (which he explains through abstraction, rejecting Augustinian illumination), he departs from him in other doctrines: he denies the real distinction between essence and being in creatures and the theory of individuation through materia signata quantitate.
29. - CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA. - VI.