Theophrastus · thesis 15.3

Thesis 15.3

Latin

Ita se habet intellectus agens ad producenda intelligibilia in possibilem intellectum, sicut se habet forma artis ad producendas formas in materiam artis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14374

English

The agent intellect stands to the production of intelligible objects in the possible intellect just as the form belonging to a craft stands to the production of forms in the material worked by that craft.

Sense checked against farmer1998:14431; 'agent intellect'/'possible intellect' kept as the standard scholastic pair rather than paraphrased.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14431; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Theophrastus (section 15 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

• 7.7 Deus primum mobile non solum ut finis, sed ut uerum efliciens et proprius motor mouet.