Henry of Ghent · thesis 5.9

Thesis 5.9

Latin

Habere aliquiditatiuam et diffinibilem realitatem commune est figmentis et non figmentis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12603

English

Possessing a quidditative, definable reality is shared alike by fictions and by non-fictions.

Farmer's rendering, 'common to created and uncreated things' (farmer1998:12634), interprets 'figmentis et non figmentis' loosely; the Latin literally opposes 'figmenta' (constructs without real being, e.g. a chimera) to things that are not such constructs, in line with the Avicennian view that even a non-existent essence has a definable quiddity. Sense checked against farmer1998:12634.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12634; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Henry of Ghent (section 5 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: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 3.5 Quiditates habent ab aeterno suum esse formale a se, non ab extrinseco.
• 4.7 Ens dicitur de deo et creatura uniuoce in quid.
• 4.8 Ens de suis passionibus et ultimis differentiis quiditatiue non praedicatur.