Avicenna · thesis 8.3

Thesis 8.3

Latin

In coelo est materia eiusdem rationis cum materia inferiorum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13575

English

The matter of the heavens is of the same kind as the matter of inferior things.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13630; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Avicenna (section 8 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>67 Per dictum Cabalistarum quod Caeli sunt ex igne et aqua, simul et ueritatem. Theologicam de ipsis sephirot nobis manifestat, et philosophica
• 14.1 In coelo est materia alterius rationis a materia inferiorum.
• 2.33 Materia nullum dicit actum entitatiuum positiuum.
• 7.21 Diffinitiones substantiarum naturalium, materiam non dicunt nisi consecutiue.
• 7.6 Impossibile est eandem speciem ex propagatione et ex putrefactione generari.