al-Farabi · thesis 9.4

Thesis 9.4

Latin

Cum dicit Aristoteles omnem doctrinam et omnem disciplinam fieri ex praeexistenti cognitione, intelligende sunt per doctrinam et disciplinam cognitio diffinitiua et argumentatiua.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13784

English

Where Aristotle says that all teaching and all learning proceed from preexisting knowledge, 'teaching' and 'learning' should be taken to mean knowledge gained through definitions and through arguments.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13843; 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.