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The article discusses the changing thoughts on sameness and difference in logic and theology of Peter Abelard in Great Britain. The sameness and difference in the three version of the Theologia has been analyzed by several recent writers such as Ian Wilks, Jeff Brower and Peter King. Despite some disagreements, they hold that Abelard's views are best expressed in the Theologia christiana and that he is putting forward a theory that can help philosophers in considering the material constitution of objects.

The article presents an analysis on the context and signification of Peter Abelard's mental language theory in Great Britain. It is said that Abelard has maintained individual works in a sentence which represent distinct semantic units from its overall meaning. He also employs two strategies to defend the position in the face of troublesome counterexamples. An example of his strategy evokes a fluid conception of what the signification of a word is and the considerable latitude to alter under the contextual influence of other words. As the evolution of the strategy is linked to a new willingness on Abelard's part to adopt the principle of charity in interpreting sentences, it also adopts the principle which is linked in developing vocation as an interpreter of biblical texts.

The article presents the author's view on the assault of the Peter Abelard's object in Great Britain. He states that he outlined the issue in holding the controversial position. As he observed the changes of parts compromised the matter of the object and the change of matter comprises the form of the object, he believes that both elements of an object are compromised by any gain or loss of a part such as the object that compromised by any such change. He added that an object that appears to survive change is really a series of related, however, non-identical objects. As he examined the apparent exception of Abelard's claim, he showed that a specific case does not undermine the general thesis.