Avicenna · thesis 8.8

Thesis 8.8

Latin

Ab uno simplici, in fine simplicitatis, non prouenit nisi unum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13669; 1486 print folio <5r/5v>

English

A thing simple in the highest degree can give rise to only a single effect.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13722; 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.
• 8.7 Prima substantia prior est qualibet substantia habente habitudinem ad operationem transeuntem, quaecunque sit illa, alicuius causae siue for