Scotus · thesis 4.21

Thesis 4.21

Latin

Substantia non cognoscitur per speciem propriam.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12379

English

Substance is not known by means of a species proper to itself.

Pico's opposing view is suggested elsewhere in his own theses (Farmer's note, farmer1998:12461). Sense checked against farmer1998:12443.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12443; 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

• 3>57 Species inimicitiae quae a lupo ad ouis aestimatiuam multiplicantur, non accidentis alicuius, sed substantiae species sunt.