Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>11

Thesis 2>11

Latin

Cum dicit Auenrois non esse aliud medium ad probandum abstractum praeter aeternitatem motus, non intelligit de quocunque abstracto, sed de eo quod ultimato gradu abstractionis est abstractum a corpore.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 18994

English

When Averroes says that there is no other means of proving the abstract except through the eternity of motion, he does not mean this of anything abstract whatever, but of that which, at the furthest degree of abstraction, is abstract from body.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19052; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 16.1 Diffinitio de anima data ab Aristotele in qua dicitur: Anima est actus corporis, cum de rationali, de qua principaliter datur, intelligitur,
• 16.2 Anima rationalis non unitur immediate corpori organico.
• 2.29 In generatione substantiali fit resolutio usque ad materiam primam.
• 2>12 Esse corporeum non habet res ab aliqua forma substantiali uel gradu
• 2>70 Corpus organicum, quod est materia animae_et ponitur in diffinitione eius ab Aristotele, est corpus et organicum per formam essentialiter di
• 7.18 Nulla est uia ad probandum simpliciter abstractum esse, praeter uiam aeternitatis motus.
• 7.5 Quodlibet abstractum dependet a primo abstracto in triplici genere causae, formalis, finalis, et efficientis.