Paul of Venice OSA (or Paulus Venetus; 1369–1429) was a Catholic philosopher, theologian, logician and metaphysician of the Order of Saint Augustine.

Paul was born, according to the chroniclers of his order, at Udine, about 1369 and died at Venice on 15 June 1429,[2] as Paolo Nicoletti.

[5] Paul was also appointed Prior General of the Augustinian Order in 1409 by Pope Gregory XII, and also served as an ambassador to the Republic of Venice.

[1] Following on from John Wycliffe and the subsequent Oxonians who followed him, Paul further developed this new brand of realism, and further renewed Walter Burley’s opposition to nominalism.

Duns Scotus maintained the doctrine of the univocity of being and the existence of the universal forms of objects outside of the person's mind.