Averroes · thesis 7.41

Thesis 7.41

Latin

Finis non causat finaliter secundum suum esse conceptum, sed secundum suum esse reale.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13507

English

It is not by its conceived existence that an end exercises final causality, but by its real existence.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13541; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 3.6 Nulla diffinitio adaequat diffinitum.
• 7.5 Quodlibet abstractum dependet a primo abstracto in triplici genere causae, formalis, finalis, et efficientis.