Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Giles of Rome · thesis 6.10

Thesis 6.10

Latin

Ad hoc, quod aliqua scientia alteri non subalternetur, sufficit quod faciat reductionem ad per se nota in suo genere abstractionis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12786

OCR 'abstractions' corrected to 'abstractionis'.

English

A science escapes subordination to another provided it can be traced back to self-evident principles within its own genus of abstraction.

Farmer calls this the premodern antecedent of Gödel's second theorem (farmer1998:12806). Sense checked against farmer1998:12827.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T01b; sense checked against farmer1998:12827; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Giles of Rome (section 6 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Discussed in

Mention records in the corpus: 6 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references