Francis of Meyronnes · thesis 3.1

Thesis 3.1

Latin

Ideo haec est falsa: Essentia generat, quia essentia est ultimate abstracta, et generat formaliter praedicatur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11974

The sheet carries a stray trailing character after the sentence, an OCR artifact, omitted here.

Hence the statement 'the essence generates' is false, since the essence is abstracted to the utmost degree, while 'generates' is predicated formally.

'the essence' = God's abstract nature considered apart from the Persons (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12005). Sense checked against farmer1998:12028.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12028; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Francis of Meyronnes (section 3 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

11>4 Ensoph non est aliis numerationibus connumeranda, quia est illarum
2.1 Si spiritus a filio non procederet, a filio non distingueretur.
2>47 Tenendo communem modum doctorum, quod scilicet de deo aliquid formaliter praedicetur, dico duas conclusiones proximas, quarum haec est prima
2>48 Secunda: Deus ideo non est in genere quia est substantialiter substantia.
4.5 Praxis est operatio alterius potentiae ab intellectu, apta nata conformiter elici rationi rectae ad hoc: ut sit recta.