Single Question. Whether this proposition is true ‘God generates another God’

1. There is another question, about ‘other’ [Parisian Reportatio IA d.4 n.1] - It is contained in the Cambridge question [Reportatio IC], but in this way [sc. as opposed to the way it is contained in Reportatio IA]: as it is in the case of all concrete terms, whether substantives or adjectives - wherefore they are not numbered the way something having a form is.Reportatio IC d.4 p.1 q. un: “...but in a thing which is a ‘this’ no otherness falls as such; therefore since one cannot there say ‘another entity’ or ‘another deity’, one could not there say ‘another God’, for ‘God’ in the manner of a concrete term responds adequately to deity. Hence when it is said ‘Socrates is other than Plato in humanity’, there is introduced a distinction between Socrates and Plato and an agreement of both in humanity, and the phrase introduces a distinction and a numbering of humanity in them. So since deity in divine reality is not numbered in the supposits, therefore this proposition is false ‘the Father is other than the Son in deity’.” ¹ Another question, the common one, ‘whether God generates God’, of which the Cambridge question can be the article.See appendix point A. The Vatican editors opine that Scotus intended the lacunas in the Ordinatio to be supplied from materials in the two Reportationes. Hence they include the relevant sections of the Cambridge Reportatio in an appendix (the Parisian Reportatio is already in the process of being edited and published in separate volumes by the same Vatican editors). ²

2. For the arguments ‘pro’ and ‘con’ see the Parisian [Reportatio IA d.4 nn.2-5].

3. Solution. There is, corresponding to any entity, some thing or someone, as its ‘in which’; deity is of itself a ‘this’, therefore God is of himself a ‘this’; therefore nonidentity is in itself repugnant to him; ‘other’ posits non-identity about him, because it is a determinable of him [IA d.4 n.6].

4. These three phrases are distinguished - other than God, other by deity, other in deity: the locution ‘another God’ does not posit the first two but the third. [IA d.4 nn.7-10].

5. On the contrary: ‘other’ connotes that the same extremes are in a determinable form. - Response: they are the same in one way in that form, different in another [IA d.4 n.10].

6. Another doubt, same God and other God: the term ‘God’, as it is compared to subject and determination, is understood in the same way in both cases, otherwise in one proposition the term would be understood under opposite modes of understanding; therefore if it has a personal and not a simple distinction with respect to the subject, it has the same distinction with respect to the term ‘other’ [IA d.4 n.13].