Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>30

Thesis 2>30

Latin

Sensus communis non est distinctus a sensu uisus, auditus, odoratus,

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19313

English

Common sense is nothing other than the senses of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch themselves, not something set apart from them.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:19373; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (2008)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.1 Species intelligibiles non sunt necessariae, et eas ponere non est bonis peripateticis consentaneum.
• 1.10 Obiectum per se et proprie sensus communis est magnitudo, ut bene dixit Auicenna.
• 2>1 Potest a specie in sensu exteriori existente immediate abstrahi species uniuersalis.
• 7.10 Tres modi per se sunt ad demonstrationem utiles: primus, secundus et quartus.