Licet in nullo syllogismo qui sit actu uel potentia cathegoricus ex duabus negatiuis concludi possit, potest tamen hoc fieri in syllogismo compositiuo, ut scilicet ex duabus negatiuis concludatur.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13570
English
Granted that no syllogism categorical either in act or in potential can draw a conclusion from two negative premises, this can still happen in a composite syllogism, where a conclusion is indeed drawn from two negatives.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13624; awaiting human check
Attribution: reported according to Avicenna (section 8 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports
Farmer's cross-references
7.26Propositio necessaria quae ab Aristotele in libro Priorum contra possibilem et inuentam distinguitur, est illa quae est ex terminis necessar
8.1Praeter syllogismum cathegoricum et hypotheticum, datur genus syllogismorum compositiuorum.