Thesis 6.10
Latin
Ad hoc, quod aliqua scientia alteri non subalternetur, sufficit quod faciat reductionem ad per se nota in suo genere abstractionis.
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.
Discussed in
- Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)