Vnumquodque indiuiduum est indiuiduum per propriam differentiam indiuidualem, quae dicitur haecceitas.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12236
OCR 'hecheitas' corrected to 'haecceitas'.
English
Every individual is individuated by its own individuating difference, termed its haecceity.
'haecceity' = the 'thisness' of a thing, a formal distinction differentiating each created individual from all others (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12269). Sense checked against farmer1998:12296.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12296; 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).