Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>33

Thesis 2>33

Latin

Possibilis est regressus a causa ad effectum negatione quam somniat Burleus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19327

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 absque negatioe | 1486 Emendationes errorum, ubi scribitur : absque negatôe (sic) : Corrige: negatione | 1487 absque negotiatione

The 1486 text and its own Emendationes errorum disagree over this word (printing, then correcting to, 'negatione'); the 1487 reprint instead prints 'negotiatione'. Farmer's note (farmer1998:19387) judges the 1487 reading a mistaken emendation and argues the list of errors in fact means to delete 'absque' from the thesis; 'negatione', as given in the sheet, is followed here.

English

A regress from cause to effect is possible, even by the negation that Burley dreams of.

'Burleus' = Walter Burley (d. c. 1343). The crux over 'negatione'/'negotiatione' is Farmer's own (farmer1998:19354-19362) and is not resolved here beyond following his preferred reading; worth a human Latinist's eye.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:19387; awaiting human check

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

Not established

• Whether 'negatione' or 'negotiatione' is Pico's word is unsettled in the apparatus itself (farmer1998:19354-19362).

Farmer's cross-references

• 7.10 Tres modi per se sunt ad demonstrationem utiles: primus, secundus et quartus.