Scotus · thesis 4.19

Thesis 4.19

Latin

Actus intelligendi ab obiecto et intellectu tanquam duobus agentibus partialibus, ut quod causatur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12371

The closing clause 'ut quod causatur' is elliptical in the source as transmitted; no fuller reading is supplied by the apparatus consulted.

English

The act of understanding, as an effect, is caused by the object and the intellect together, each as a partial cause.

Sense checked against farmer1998:12435; the elliptical closing clause is rendered by supplying 'as an effect' for the sense, per Farmer's own reading at the same locator.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12435; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Scotus (section 4 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Not established

• Whether the closing clause 'ut quod causatur' preserves the full wording of the thesis, or is truncated in transmission, is not established by the sources consulted.

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

• 2.40 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.