Paradoxical reconciliations · thesis 1>11

Thesis 1>11

Latin

De re definitiue concepta, primus conceptus qui habetur est conceptus uniuersalissimus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18702

Apparatus (Farmer): 1487 est conceptus rei conceptus proprius et convertibilis

The 1487 reprint here substitutes the reading proper to 1>10 ('est conceptus rei conceptus proprius et convertibilis'), part of the same editorial confusion noted at 1>10 (Farmer's note at farmer1998:18731).

English

Take a thing as grasped by its defining formula: the very first concept one forms of it is the maximally general concept.

Sense checked; no further crux beyond the apparatus tangle with 1>10.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:18760; 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>12 In distinctissima cognitione, ultimo nota nobis sunt praedicata maxime uniuersalia.
• 1>8 In hoc articulo preciso a suis appendiciis: Vtrum angelus potuerit diuinam aequalitatem simpliciter appetere, non discordat Thomas et Scotus
• 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.