Averroes · thesis 7.1

Thesis 7.1

Latin

Possibile est prophetia in somnis per illustrationem intellectus agentis super animam nostram.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12864

English

Prophecy in dreams is possible by the agent intellect's illumination of our soul.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:12906; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Averroes (section 7 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

• 21.4 Maior pars rerum quae in somnis innotescunt aut per purgationem animae, aut per indemoniationem, aut per meram spiritus reuelationem innotes
• 21.5 Quod scribit Tabet Chaldeus de dormitione super epar in reuelatione somniorum recte intelligetur si ad hoc dictum dicta Platonis in Timeo co
• 21.6 Quia sicut dixit Abdala, videre somnia est fortitudo imaginationis, intelligere ea est fortitudo intellectus, ideo qui uidet ea ut plurimum