Averroes · thesis 7.40

Thesis 7.40

Latin

Dato per impossibile quod daretur materia quae corruptionis principium non esset, adhuc si coelum ex tali materia et forma esset uere compositum, aeternum esse non posset.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13501

English

Suppose, per impossibile, that a matter existed which was not a principle of corruption: even then, if the heavens were genuinely composed from such matter and form, they could not be eternal.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13536; awaiting human check

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