Francis of Meyronnes · thesis 3.3

Thesis 3.3

Latin

Voluntas potest non frui ostenso obiecto fruibili.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11981

Farmer notes that Pico's Basel editors inserted a spurious 'non' before 'frui', reversing the thesis's sense and turning Francis into an intellectualist (farmer1998:12011); the reading given follows the text at farmer1998:11981, without that insertion.

English

The will has the power to withhold enjoyment even when an enjoyable object is presented to it.

Sense checked against farmer1998:12036; no further crux beyond the Basel variant noted above.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12036; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

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

Mention records in the corpus: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>2 Non possumus dicere quod de re precisissime sumpta aliquid praedicetur praedicatione proprie dicta.
• 3>3 Qui attingit rem in diffinitione_attingit rem in alteritate.
• 3>4 Solus ille qui attingit rem in precisione suae unionis_attingit rem ut est ipsa.
• 3>5 Quanto unusquisque modus cognitionis est eminentior, tanto in intellectu disproportionato imperfectior euadit et illi inutilior.
• 3>6 Sicut cognitio per demonstrationem habita bomini, pro communi statu quem hic experimur, est perfectissima cognitio, ita simpliciter inter co
• 3>7 Sicut deus est simpliciter cognitio totius esse, ita intellectus est diffinitio
• 4.5 Praxis est operatio alterius potentiae ab intellectu, apta nata conformiter elici rationi rectae ad hoc: ut sit recta.