Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.17

Thesis 2.17

Latin

Licet defendi possit quoquomodo creaturam posse creare, rationabilius tamen est credere potentiam creandi creaturae communicari non posse.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11530

English

Although one might in some fashion defend the claim that a creature can create, it is more reasonable to hold that the power to create cannot be communicated to any creature.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11593; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11593; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Thomas Aquinas (section 2 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

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