Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>21

Thesis 2>21

Latin

Notitia de nouo acquisita fit ex praecedenti cognitione tanquam ex termino a quo, et tanquam ex causa effectiua partiali, formali, directiua, et tanquam ex causa praedisponente materiali.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19194

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 omits paragraph mark (numbers in the present edition) that normally signal a new thesis

1486/1487 apparatus: 1486 omits paragraph mark (numbers in the present edition) that normally signal a new thesis

English

Knowledge newly acquired arises out of prior cognition, taken as its point of departure, and as a partial efficient, formal, and directive cause, and as a predisposing material cause.

Sense checked; no further crux beyond the apparatus's missing paragraph mark.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19257; 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

• 1.1 Species intelligibiles non sunt necessariae, et eas ponere non est bonis peripateticis consentaneum.
• 7.10 Tres modi per se sunt ad demonstrationem utiles: primus, secundus et quartus.