Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>17

Thesis 2>17

Latin

Non potuit mundus esse a deo ab aeterno efficienter efficientia uera, quae est reductio de potentia ad actum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19094

English

The world could not have existed from God from eternity through a true efficient causality, which consists in a reduction from potency to act.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19155; awaiting human check

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