Francis of Meyronnes · thesis 3.8

Thesis 3.8

Latin

Esse non est de quiditate dei, sed dicitur de eo in secundo modo.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12079

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 Esse non de est quiditate

1487 apparatus transposes the word order to 'Esse non de est quiditate' (farmer1998:12084); sense unaffected.

Existence is no part of God's quiddity, but is predicated of him according to the second mode of per se predication.

For the 'second mode' of predication, see the note to 2.24/2.35. Sense checked against farmer1998:12109.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12109; 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).

2.35 Haec propositio: Homo est risibilis, non est in secundo modo / dicendi per se.