Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Proclus · thesis 24.38

Thesis 24.38

Latin

In per se uiuente apparet primo quaternitas unius, entis, unius entalis, et entis unialis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 16583

OCR underscore in 'quaternitas_unius' (farmer1998:16583) read as a word space.

English

In the self-living there first appears a fourfold: of the one, of being, of the being-like one, and of the one-like being.

'uniale/entale' are scholastic coinages (unius entalis, entis unialis) with no classical sense; rendered 'being-like one' and 'one-like being'. 'per se uiuens' rendered 'the self-living'; Farmer's note identifies it with the 'per se animal' (farmer1998:16622).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-T03b-2; sense checked against farmer1998:16638; awaiting human check

Attribution: reported according to Proclus (section 24 of the historical theses) · Pico's stance: reports

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