Scotus · thesis 4.20

Thesis 4.20

Latin

Actus intelligendi nobiliori modo causatur ab intellectu quam ab obiecto, quodcunque sit obiectum, modo non sit beatificum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12375

English

Whatever the object may be, the act of understanding is caused by the intellect in a nobler way than by the object, provided the object is not the beatific one.

Sense checked against farmer1998:12439; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12439; 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

• 2.40 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.