al-Farabi · thesis 9.2

Thesis 9.2

Latin

Diffinitio generis quam dedit Porphyrius mala est, sed sic debet diffiniri: Genus est quod duorum uniuersalium est uniuersalius.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13777

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 dabit Porphyrius | Emendationes errorum, corrige: dedit | 1487 text emended sic

1486 read 'dabit Porphyrius', emended in the Emendationes errorum to 'dedit', a reading adopted by 1487 (farmer1998:13798); the sheet gives the emended reading.

English

Porphyry's definition of genus is a poor one; genus should instead be defined as that which, between two universals, is the more universal.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13835; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.1 Species intelligibiles non sunt necessariae, et eas ponere non est bonis peripateticis consentaneum.
• 2>21 Notitia de nouo acquisita fit ex praecedenti cognitione tanquam ex termino a quo, et tanquam ex causa effectiua partiali, formali, directiua
• 7.10 Tres modi per se sunt ad demonstrationem utiles: primus, secundus et quartus.
• 7.11 In omni demonstratione praeterquam in demonstratione simpliciter fieri potest circulatio.