Alexander of Aphrodisias · thesis 18.8

Thesis 18.8

Latin

Methaphysicus et dialecticus aeque de omnibus disputant, sed ille demonstratiue, hic probabiliter.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14833

English

Both the metaphysician and the dialectician take every subject as their province, but one argues by demonstration and the other only by probability.

Sense checked against farmer1998:14856; reworded for distance from Farmer's rendering.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14856; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.1 Species intelligibiles non sunt necessariae, et eas ponere non est bonis peripateticis consentaneum.
• 3>9 Vera methaphysica, tradita methaphysicaliter, est de quolibet quod est uera forma ut de primo subiecto, et de quolibet quod est secundum suu