Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Simplicius · thesis 17.9

Thesis 17.9

Latin

Cum dicit Aristoteles non recordari nos post mortem quia passiuus intellectus corrumpitur, per passiuum intellectum, possibilem intellectum intelligit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14655

Source reads 'Anstoteles', an OCR misreading of 'Aristoteles' (farmer1998:14655); corrected here.

English

Aristotle's claim that we lose our memory after death, since the passive intellect corrupts, uses 'the passive intellect' to mean the possible intellect.

Sense checked against farmer1998:14690; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14690; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Simplicius (section 17 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

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