Scotus · thesis 4.7

Thesis 4.7

Latin

Ens dicitur de deo et creatura uniuoce in quid.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12240

English

Being is predicated univocally, and quidditatively, of both God and creature.

Reflects the chief Thomist-Scotist conflict Pico planned to resolve at Rome (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12275). Sense checked against farmer1998:12300.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12300; 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: 5 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 1>14 In materia de obiecto intellectus non discordat, ut creditur, sed concordat Thommas et Scotus.
• 2.42 Quiditates in particulari a methaphysico non considerantur.
• 2>5 Singulare non intelligitur ab intellectu, nec secundum ueritatem, nec secundum etiam opinionem Aristotelis, Commentatoris, et Thommae.
• 3.4 Ens denominatiue dicitur de deo.
• 3.8 Esse non est de quiditate dei, sed dicitur de eo in secundo modo.