c. 1200–1280 · Dominican; lectured on the Sentences at Paris in the 1240s, and taught Thomas there
He is the first witness this edition has for the band BEFORE the dispute, which had printed empty on every page until now because Alexander of Hales has no public-domain text. Ruling 2 keeps him out of the Thomist bench on purpose: he is Thomas's teacher and writes before the schools that argue this distinction exist, and putting him on the bench his pupil founded would make the page tell a story about influence that the texts do not tell. What he does supply is a date. On both of the questions this edition builds him on, Albert reports the case against the Master as already settled among his contemporaries — communiter fere omnes meliores concordant, and omnes autem moderni fere dicunt contrarium — a decade before Bonaventure and Thomas write.