Albert the Great · thesis 1.11

Thesis 1.11

Latin

Stat speciem cuius dicimur reminisci esse totaliter deperditam et abolitam.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11141

English

It is possible for the species of which we are said to have a memory to be entirely lost and destroyed.

'species' here bears the sense 'image', specifically the image of God in the soul (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11166). Sense checked against farmer1998:11189.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11189; 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

• 2.23 Vnum supra ens non addit nisi priuationem diuisionis.
• 2.41 Potentiae animae ab anima realiter distinguuntur.
• 4>7 'Tria transcendentia in quibus consistit imago non dicunt diuersas rationes in recto, et principaliter diffinibiles uel descriptibiles.
• 7.1 Possibile est prophetia in somnis per illustrationem intellectus agentis super animam nostram.
• 7.31 Qui ponit animam formam complexionalemnegat causam agentem.
• 9>12 Forma totius magicae uirtutis est ab anima hominis stante, et non cadente.