Themistius · thesis 19.1

Thesis 19.1

Latin

Intellectus possibiles qui illuminantur tantum plures sunt; agentes participati illuminantes et illuminati plures quoque sunt; agens illuminans tantum unus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 14881

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 illuminati.Plures quoque sunt.agentes

1486 reads 'illuminati.Plures quoque sunt.agentes', where the sense requires the clause division given here (farmer1998:14904).

English

The possible intellects that are only illuminated are many; the participated agent intellects that both illuminate and are illuminated are likewise many; the one agent intellect that illuminates only is single.

Sense checked against farmer1998:14934; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:14934; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Themistius (section 19 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

Farmer's cross-references

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• 3>48 Praeter tria demonstrationis genera, quia, propter quid, et simpliciter, quae ponunt Aristoteles et commentator, datur quartum genus demonst
• 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.