Giles of Rome · thesis 6.8

Thesis 6.8

Latin

Sensus gustus, ut gustus est, non solum saporabile, sed humidum percipit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12781

English

The sense of taste, precisely as taste, perceives not only what is flavorable but also what is moist.

Sense checked against farmer1998:12820; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12820; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Giles of Rome (section 6 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: 5 (deterministic harvest; see Method).