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Porphyry · thesis 22.1

Thesis 22.1

Latin

Per patrem apud Platonem intelligere debemus causam quae a seipsa totum effectum producit; per factorem eam quae materiam accipit ab alio.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 15438

English

By 'father' in Plato we should understand the cause that produces its whole effect from itself; by 'maker', the cause that receives its matter from another.

Sense checked against farmer1998:15494; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T03b; sense checked against farmer1998:15494; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Porphyry (section 22 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

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