Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.33

Thesis 2.33

Latin

Materia nullum dicit actum entitatiuum positiuum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11767

English

Matter expresses no positive act of being whatsoever.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11828; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11828; 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

• 18.3 Nullam diffinitionem, etiam naturalem, ex Aristotelis sententia ingreditur materia.
• 2>52 In definitione substantiarum naturalium non esse ponendam materiam, et Auenroi et Alberto consentanea sententia est.
• 2>8 Ex praedicta conclusione habetur quare materia sit principium incognoscibilitatis et intellectus agens cognoscibilitatis.
• 7.21 Diffinitiones substantiarum naturalium, materiam non dicunt nisi consecutiue.
• 8.6 Essentia rei_materiam propriam et formam complectitur.