Albert the Great · thesis 1.10

Thesis 1.10

Latin

Obiectum per se et proprie sensus communis est magnitudo, ut bene dixit Auicenna.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11053; 1486 print folio <1r/1v>

English

The object of common sense, taken per se and properly, is magnitude, as Avicenna rightly said.

'sensus communis': the faculty coordinating the several senses' perception of shared objects such as magnitude (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11125). Sense checked against farmer1998:11108.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11108; 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

• 10.3 Motus est sensibile commune, a sensu exteriori absque actione alterius uirtutis cognoscibile.
• 13.3 Sensibilia communia proprias species ad sensus multiplicant, distinctas a speciebus sensibilium propriorum.
• 2.6 Ex diuina bonitate potest sumi ratio praedestinationis aliquorum et reprobationis aliorum, et sola diuina uoluntas est ratio quod istos repr
• 2>30 Sensus communis non est distinctus a sensu uisus, auditus, odoratus,
• 2>58 Virtutem sensitiuam sensus communis, sicuti non a uirtutibus sensitiuis sensuum exteriorum, ut dixit conclusio .xxx., ita nec a uirtutibus s
• 3>41 Sicut se habet sensus communis in cognitione accidentalium qualitatum_et quantitatis materialis, ita se habet ratio in cognitione substantia