Averroes · thesis 7.12

Thesis 7.12

Latin

Grauia et leuia mouent se per accidens mouendo medium per se.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13055

English

Only per accidens do heavy and light bodies move themselves, since it is the medium that they move per se.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13109; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Averroes (section 7 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: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 2.37 Grauia et leuia a nullo alio motore mouentur quam uel a generante uel a remouente prohibens.