Paradoxical reconciliations · thesis 1>12

Thesis 1>12

Latin

In distinctissima cognitione, ultimo nota nobis sunt praedicata maxime uniuersalia.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18706

English

When our knowledge is at its most precise, the predicates that are broadest in scope are the ones we come to know last of all.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:18764; 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>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.