 Amongst baroque scholastics, the most notable adherent of haecceities is the Jesuit Peter Fonseca (1528–1599), whose monumental commentary on Aristotle’s Metaphysics (Fonseca [1599]) includes an extensive discussion of haecceities. (Fonseca, with something of a humanist background, worries about the barbarous nature of Scotus’s neologism, and suggests in passing that ‘haeccity’ [haeccitas] would have been a more comfortable formulation [In Met. V, c. 6, q. 5, sect. 1 (Fonseca [1599], vol. 2, col. 381D)] – compare ‘quiddity.’) Like many of the sixteenth and seventeenth-century scholastics, Fonseca – most notable for coming up with a theory of divine “middle knowledge” at much the same time as Molina – is not a follower of any one earlier philosopher, preferring to learn from any of his predecessors on various points as he sees fit. According to Fonseca,