'per accidens' has the technical sense that form has no existence in itself apart from the composite it informs (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11691). Sense checked against farmer1998:11709.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11709; 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
2.29In generatione substantiali fit resolutio usque ad materiam primam.
2>6Licet intellectus non intelligat singulariter, ab ipso tamen est quod perfecte cognoscatur singulare.
7.7Deus primum mobile non solum ut finis, sed ut uerum efliciens et proprius motor mouet.