Averroes · thesis 7.15

Thesis 7.15

Latin

Vniuersalia sunt ex parte rei in potentia tantum, actu autem per operationem animae.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13149

English

On the side of the thing, universals exist only potentially; they exist in act only through an operation of the soul.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13212; awaiting human check

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