Abstract

The paper examines the position of two Franciscan fourteenth-century theologians about the question regarding the possibility (“naturaliter” or “de potentia Dei”) of a non-existing object’s intuitive knowledge. Even if in very different ways and with distinct purposes, both Francis of Meyronnes in Paris and Walter Chatton in Oxford in the same years seem to defend the gnoseology of Duns Scotus, in polemic (but also partially in agreement) with Peter Aureoli and William of Ockham.