Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>46

Thesis 2>46

Latin

Scientia est realiter relatiua, et scibile ad eam per accidens refertur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19649

English

Knowledge is really relative, and the knowable is referred to it only accidentally.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19707; 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

• 2>47 Tenendo communem modum doctorum, quod scilicet de deo aliquid formaliter praedicetur, dico duas conclusiones proximas, quarum haec est prima
• 2>48 Secunda: Deus ideo non est in genere quia est substantialiter substantia.
• 3>33 Ratio praedicamenti ad aliquid est esse imaginarium.
• 4.16 Relatio creaturae ad deum est idem realiter fundamento, distincta formaliter et ex natura rei.
• 4.17 Quaelibet alia relatio a fundamento realiter distinguitur.