Averroes · thesis 7.5

Thesis 7.5

Latin

Quodlibet abstractum dependet a primo abstracto in triplici genere causae, formalis, finalis, et efficientis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 12951

English

Every abstract substance depends on the first abstract substance under a threefold kind of cause: formal, final, and efficient.

'abstractum' rendered 'abstract substance', following the sense given at farmer1998:13016 (for Averroes, God as the first abstract substance).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13005; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 2.17 Licet defendi possit quoquomodo creaturam posse creare, rationabilius tamen est credere potentiam creandi creaturae communicari non posse.
• 8.5 Possibile est hominem ex putrefactione generari.
• 8.7 Prima substantia prior est qualibet substantia habente habitudinem ad operationem transeuntem, quaecunque sit illa, alicuius causae siue for
• 8.8 Ab uno simplici, in fine simplicitatis, non prouenit nisi unum.