Potentia respectiua materiae non addit supra materiam rem, sed rationem.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11159
English
A relative potency in matter adds to matter not a further thing, but only a further concept.
'res'/'ratio' (thing/concept) mark the standard scholastic distinction between a real addition and a merely conceptual one (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11224). Sense checked against farmer1998:11207.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11207; 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
4.22Habitus actum producit ut causa partialis effectiua.
7.41Finis non causat finaliter secundum suum esse conceptum, sed secundum suum esse reale.