Albert the Great · thesis 1.4

Thesis 1.4

Latin

In quolibet puncto materiae sunt per habitum inchoationis potestatiuum essentiae omnium formarum naturalium, materiae coeternae secundum philosophos, concreatae secundum fidem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11028

The sheet gives only the opening clause; the full sentence is supplied from farmer1998:11028-11032.

English

At every point of matter, the essences of all natural forms are present potentially, by a habit of inchoation — co-eternal with matter according to the philosophers, co-created with it according to the faith.

'habitus inchoationis': an infused disposition toward a form, present in matter from its origin but not part of matter's formal definition (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11060). Sense checked against farmer1998:11085.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11085; 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

• 1.1 Species intelligibiles non sunt necessariae, et eas ponere non est bonis peripateticis consentaneum.
• 2.27 Eadem est numero qualitas a principio alterationis usque ad finem.
• 2>34 Tenentes minima naturalia in qualitatibus, non propterea habent negare motum alterationis fieri in tempore successiue.
• 2>54 Iste propositiones sunt concedende ut omnino uere: Materia prima fit asinus, bos, et similia.
• 3>52 Eadem est scientia de deo, homine, et materia prima, et qui de uno scientiam habuerit, habebit et de reliquis, seruata proportione extremi a
• 7>5 Sicut dictum Aristotelis de antiquis, dicentis quod ideo errarunt in physica contemplatione, quia mathematice_res physicas tractarunt, uerum