Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.21

Thesis 2.21

Latin

Non est sub eadem specie angelorum plurificatio.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11543

Farmer notes that Pico's Basel editors emended 'plurificatio' to 'purificatio' (farmer1998:11631); the text given here follows the 1486/1487 reading 'plurificatio'.

English

Angels are not multiplied within one and the same species.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11610; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11610; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Thomas Aquinas (section 2 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

• 11>67 Per dictum Cabalistarum quod Caeli sunt ex igne et aqua, simul et ueritatem. Theologicam de ipsis sephirot nobis manifestat, et philosophica
• 14.1 In coelo est materia alterius rationis a materia inferiorum.
• 2.26 Materia signata_est principium indiuiduationis.
• 2>44 Si intelligentias esse in genere secundum Aristotelem dixerit Thommas, non minus sibi quam Aristoteli repugnabit.
• 2>68 In omnibus infra deum eadem est materia secundum essentiam, diuersa secundum esse.
• 8.3 In coelo est materia eiusdem rationis cum materia inferiorum.