Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.40

Thesis 2.40

Latin

Difficultas intelligendi et ex parte ipsius intellectus et ex parte ipsius intelligibilis prouenire potest.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11882

English

Difficulty in understanding may arise either on the side of the intellect itself or on the side of the intelligible object.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11927; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11927; 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: 4 (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