Inspired by some of Ockham’s successors, Gregory argues against the Venerable Inceptor’s claim that via intuitive cognition one could determine whether a thing does exist or not (Tachau 1988, 363). In agreement with Auriol against most contemporaries, however, Gregory also holds that one can have an intuitive cognition of an object that does not exist, as for example when we see a “broken” pencil in a glass of water, when there is only an unbroken pencil in reality. But Auriol is wrong in claimi