Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.26

Thesis 2.26

Latin

Materia signata est principium indiuiduationis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11656

Sheet's underscore in 'signata_est' corrected to a space.

Matter, once determined by form, is the principle of individuation.

'materia signata': matter as marked out and limited by form (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11733). Sense checked against farmer1998:11712.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11712; awaiting human check

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

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).

1.5 Forma in intensione et remissione non uarlatur secundum essentiam, sed
2.12 Beatitudo est essentialiter in actu intellectus.
2.25 Forma generatur per accidens.
2.43 Implicat contradictionem, materiam esse sine forma.
2>34 Tenentes minima naturalia in qualitatibus, non propterea habent negare motum alterationis fieri in tempore successiue.
3>20 Ipseitas uniuscuiusque tunc maxime est ipsa, cum in ipsa ita sunt omnia, ut in ipsa omnia sint ipsa.
4.6 Vnumquodque indiuiduum est indiuiduum per propriam differentiam indiuidualem, quae dicitur hecheitas.