Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.39

Thesis 2.39

Latin

Phantasma est agens secundarium et instrumentale in productione speciei intelligibilis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11878

English

The phantasm serves as a secondary, instrumental agent in producing the intelligible species.

'phantasms' = sensual images (Farmer's note, farmer1998:11904). Sense checked against farmer1998:11923.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11923; 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

• 2.1 Si spiritus a filio non procederet, a filio non distingueretur.
• 3>40 Posse animam per uiam purgatoriam, absque alio studio uel in/uestigatione, per solam modicam et facillimam collationem et aduertentiam super
• 4.19 Actus intelligendi ab obiecto et intellectu tanquam duobus agentibus partialibus, ut quod causatur.
• 4.20 Actus intelligendi nobiliori modo causatur ab intellectu quam ab obiecto, quodcunque sit obiectum, modo non sit beatificum.
• 7.25 Exemplum Aristotelis in secundo Methaphysice, de nicticorace respectu solis, non denotat impossibilitatem, sed difficultatem, alioquin natur