Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>8

Thesis 2>8

Latin

Ex praedicta conclusione habetur quare materia sit principium incognoscibilitatis et intellectus agens cognoscibilitatis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18981

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 cognoscibilitatis:

1486/1487 apparatus: 1486 cognoscibilitatis:

From the preceding conclusion it follows why matter is the principle of unknowability and the agent intellect the principle of knowability.

Sense checked; no further crux beyond the apparatus's colon.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19042; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 2>, philosophical conclusions dissenting from the common philosophy) · Pico's stance: endorses

(author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

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

2>7 Quaelibet res, quaecunque sit illa, in puritate sui esse constituta est intelligens, intellectus, et intellectum.
3>49 Magis improprie dicitur de deo quod sit intellectus uel intelligens, quam de anima rationali quod sit angelus.
7a>42 Vtrum in angelo sit aliud quam intelligens, intellectio, et intellectum.
7a>5 Vtrum sit intelligens.