Albert the Great · thesis 1.8

Thesis 1.8

Latin

Lumen non habet in medio nisi esse intentionale.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11047

English

In the medium, light has only intentional existence, not real existence.

The sheet's locator for Farmer's English was given as None; the corresponding sentence was located at farmer1998:11102 ('Light in a medium has only intentional existence') and checked against it. 'esse intentionale' contrasts with the 'esse reale' of 1.7.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11102; 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: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.7 Sonus fertur secundum esse reale usque ad principium nerui auditiui.
• 2.6 Ex diuina bonitate potest sumi ratio praedestinationis aliquorum et reprobationis aliorum, et sola diuina uoluntas est ratio quod istos repr
• 2.7 Licet dei uoluntas consequens semper impleatur, non tamen necessitatem rebus uolitis generaliter imponit.
• 2>76 Sicut quilibet philosophus habet dicere quod uirtutes sensitiue / sunt in corde, ita quilibet medicus habet dicere quod sint in cerebro.
• 8.10 Propositio dicens quod sensibile supra sensum positum non facit sensationem, non est uera nisi per accidens.
• 8.11 Organum odoratus sunt caruncule mamillares in anteriori cerebri parte constitutae.
• 8.9 Odor secundum esse reale et non intentionale usque ad sensum multiplicatur.
• 9.9 Species sunt in medio, medio modo inter esse spirituale et materiale.