Henry of Ghent · thesis 5.11

Thesis 5.11

Latin

Ratitudo formaliter cuiuslibet creati est respectus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12610

English

The 'ratitude' — the confirmed, settled being — of every created thing is, formally, a relation.

'ratitudo' is a rare scholastic coinage from 'ratus' (fixed, ratified, valid); Farmer renders it 'rectitude' (farmer1998:12640), which may reflect a different reading or an association with 'rectitudo'. Which term Henry intended is not established without the critical apparatus of his own edition. Sense checked against farmer1998:12640.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12640; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Henry of Ghent (section 5 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Not established

• Whether the term is 'ratitudo' (as printed in the sheet and Farmer's Latin) or a corruption of 'rectitudo' 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: 5 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 4.16 Relatio creaturae ad deum est idem realiter fundamento, distincta formaliter et ex natura rei.