Alexander of Aphrodisias · thesis 18.5

Thesis 18.5

Latin

Numerus abstractorum de quo agit Aristoteles in duodecimo Methaphysicae, non est numerus motorum, sed numerus intelligentiarum, quae sunt fines motus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14731

English

Aristotle's twelfth book of the Metaphysics counts a certain number of separate substances; that count, for Pico, gives not the number of celestial movers but the number of intelligences, the ends toward which motion tends.

Sense checked against farmer1998:14790; 'abstractorum' rendered 'separate substances', the standard scholastic sense, rather than a literal 'abstract things'; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14790; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Alexander of Aphrodisias (section 18 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>44 Aristoteles in libro Methaphysicae de deo non tractat nisi in ultimo capitulo duodecimi quod incipit: Considerandum est etiam utronam modo u
• 7.7 Deus primum mobile non solum ut finis, sed ut uerum efliciens et proprius motor mouet.