Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>31

Thesis 2>31

Latin

Non dari species intelligibiles a phantasmatibus abstractas et ut ueram, et commentatoris et Alberti sententiam, asserimus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19318

English

We maintain, holding it both to be true and to be the view of the Commentator and of Albert, that intelligible species are never abstracted from phantasms.

'species intelligibiles' kept as the technical term intelligible species, distinct from 'phantasmata'.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:19377; 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)
• (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).

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.1 Species intelligibiles non sunt necessariae, et eas ponere non est bonis peripateticis consentaneum.
• 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.