Henry of Ghent · thesis 5.12

Thesis 5.12

Latin

Ad hoc, ut sit mutuitas realis relationis, requiritur quod fundamentum ex sua natura ordinetur ad aliud, tanquam ad suam perfectionem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12613

English

For a relation's mutuality to be real, its ground must by its own nature be ordered toward something else, as toward its own perfection.

Sense checked against farmer1998:12643; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12643; 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: 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.
• 5.11 Ratitudo formaliter cuiuslibet creati est respectus.