Scotus · thesis 4.2

Thesis 4.2

Latin

Idea lapidis non est aliud quam lapis productus a diuino intellectu in esse intelligibili, quod est esse secundum quid, existens in mente diuina sicut cognitum in cognoscente.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12144

English

The idea of a stone is nothing other than the stone as brought forth by the divine intellect into intelligible being — a qualified mode of being — present in the divine mind in the way that a known thing is present in the one who knows it.

Sense checked against farmer1998:12194; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12194; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Scotus (section 4 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

• 3.5 Quiditates habent ab aeterno suum esse formale a se, non ab extrinseco.