Avicenna · thesis 8.7

Thesis 8.7

Latin

Prima substantia prior est qualibet substantia habente habitudinem ad operationem transeuntem, quaecunque sit illa, alicuius causae siue formalis, siue materialis, siue efficientis, siue finalis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13664

English

Whatever substance stands in relation to a transitive operation — be the cause involved formal, material, efficient, or final — is preceded by the first substance.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13717; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.7 Sonus fertur secundum esse reale usque ad principium nerui auditiui.
• 1.8 Lumen non habet in medio nisi esse intentionale.
• 3>57 Species inimicitiae quae a lupo ad ouis aestimatiuam multiplicantur, non accidentis alicuius, sed substantiae species sunt.
• 7.5 Quodlibet abstractum dependet a primo abstracto in triplici genere causae, formalis, finalis, et efficientis.
• 8.8 Ab uno simplici, in fine simplicitatis, non prouenit nisi unum.