al-Farabi · thesis 9.5

Thesis 9.5

Latin

Intentio dici de omni secundum Aristotelem est talis quod praedicatum dicitur de subiecto, et de omni eo quod est subiectum actu uel potentia, possibilitate contingentiae, non necessitatis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 13789

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 que praedicatum | Emendationes errorum, corrige: quod praedicatum | 1487 text emended sic

1486 read 'que praedicatum', emended in the Emendationes errorum to 'quod praedicatum', a reading adopted by 1487 (farmer1998:13800); the sheet gives the emended reading.

English

For Aristotle, to be 'said of every' means that the predicate holds of the subject and of everything that is that subject, whether actually or potentially, with mere contingent possibility rather than necessity.

'intentio dici de omni' kept close to the logical technical sense ('said of every'); cf. farmer1998:13864.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T02b; sense checked against farmer1998:13848; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 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.