Thomas Aquinas · thesis 2.43

Thesis 2.43

Latin

Implicat contradictionem, materiam esse sine forma.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 11892

English

That matter should exist without form involves a contradiction.

Sense checked against farmer1998:11937; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:11937; 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

• 2.25 Forma generatur per accidens.
• 2.29 In generatione substantiali fit resolutio usque ad materiam primam.