Paradoxical reconciliations · thesis 1>9

Thesis 1>9

Latin

In materia quid prius cognoscatur magis an minus uniuersale concordant Thommas et Scotus, qui maxime in ea discordare existimantur; de qua pono infrascriptas tres conclusiones ex utriusque mente.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18693

English

On the question of whether what is more or less universal is known first, Thomas and Scotus — thought to disagree on this above all — agree; on which I set down the three conclusions written below, drawn from the thought of both.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:18750; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 1>, paradoxical reconciliations of Aristotle, Plato, and other doctors) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 1>10 De re nominaliter concepta, primus conceptus qui habetur_est conceptus rei conceptae proprius et conuertibilis.
• 1>11 De re definitiue concepta, primus conceptus qui habetur est conceptus uniuersalissimus.
• 1>12 In distinctissima cognitione, ultimo nota nobis sunt praedicata maxime uniuersalia.
• 3>2 Non possumus dicere quod de re precisissime sumpta aliquid praedicetur praedicatione proprie dicta.