Albert the Great · thesis 1.2

Thesis 1.2

Latin

Corruptis omnibus indiuiduis specie humanae haec est uera: homo est animal.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 10929

English

Should every individual of the human species perish, the proposition 'man is an animal' would still hold true.

Sense checked against farmer1998:10985; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:10985; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Albert the Great (section 1 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: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.4 In quolibet puncto materiae sunt per habitum inchoationis potestatiuum
• 2.45 Non sunt ponendae ideae generum.
• 2>23 Habitus habet esse practicum et speculatiuum ab obiecto relato ad subiectum in quo est. Intellectus autem dicitur practicus uel speculatiuus
• 2>35 Necessarium est tenere secundum Auenroem quod forma generis sit realiter alia a forma speciei, nec oppositum stat cum principiis doctrinae s
• 3>2 Non possumus dicere quod de re precisissime sumpta aliquid praedicetur praedicatione proprie dicta.
• 7.14 Nulla scientia probat suum subiectum esse, nec partem principalem sui subiecti.
• 7.15 Vniuersalia sunt ex parte rei in potentia tantum, actu autem per operationem animae.
• 7.19 Quicquid est in genere est corruptibile.