Paradoxical reconciliations · thesis 1>10

Thesis 1>10

Latin

De re nominaliter concepta, primus conceptus qui habetur est conceptus rei conceptae proprius et conuertibilis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18698

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 est conceptus universalissimus. | Emendationes errorum, corrige: est conceptus rei conceptae proprius et convertibilis. | 1487 text not emended

The sheet's underscore in 'habetur_est' is restored to a space. 1486 reads 'est conceptus universalissimus'; the Emendationes errorum corrects to the reading given here ('est conceptus rei conceptae proprius et convertibilis'); the 1487 reprint left the error unemended, apparently having swapped this reading with that of 1>11 (Farmer's note at farmer1998:18731).

English

When a thing is conceived by its name, the concept first grasped is the concept proper to, and convertible with, that conceived thing.

'nominaliter' (1>10) versus 'definitiue' (1>11) mark two modes of conceiving a thing — by name versus by definition — kept distinct in translation.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:18756; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Giulio Busi and Raphael Ebgi, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola: Mito, magia, Qabbalah (2014)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 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.
• 1>9 In materia quid prius cognoscatur magis an minus uniuersale concordant Thommas et Scotus, qui maxime in ea discordare existimantur; de qua p
• 3>2 Non possumus dicere quod de re precisissime sumpta aliquid praedicetur praedicatione proprie dicta.