Scotus · thesis 4.18

Thesis 4.18

Latin

Aliquid potest mouere seipsum de actu uirtuali ad actum formalem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12368

English

A thing can move itself from virtual act to formal act.

'actus uirtualis': a state of potentiality (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12456). Sense checked against farmer1998:12430.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12430; 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

• 2.37 Grauia et leuia a nullo alio motore mouentur quam uel a generante uel a remouente prohibens.
• 2.38 Grauia potius seipsis, quam a seipsis mouentur.
• 2.40 Difficultas intelligendi et ex parte ipsius intellectus et ex parte ipsius intelligibilis prouenire potest.
• 3>57 Species inimicitiae quae a lupo ad ouis aestimatiuam multiplicantur, non accidentis alicuius, sed substantiae species sunt.
• 4.19 Actus intelligendi ab obiecto et intellectu tanquam duobus agentibus partialibus, ut quod causatur.