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al-Farabi · thesis 9.1

Thesis 9.1

Latin

Primum quod est necessarium in demonstratione non est quod diffiniuit Aristoteles primo Posteriorum, sed sic debet definiri: Primum est illud quod ita est uniuersalius subiecto, ut tamen de subiecti genere non praedicetur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13772

Apparatus (Farmer): colon retained from 1486 edition

The 1486 apparatus retains a colon after 'definiri' (farmer1998:13796); the sheet's punctuation follows that reading.

English

The 'first' that demonstration requires is not what Aristotle defined in the first book of the Posterior Analytics; it should instead be defined this way: the first is what is more universal than the subject, yet is not predicated of the subject's genus.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13829; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to al-Farabi (section 9 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports