Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>47

Thesis 2>47

Latin

Tenendo communem modum doctorum, quod scilicet de deo aliquid formaliter praedicetur, dico duas conclusiones proximas, quarum haec est prima: quod solus deus ita est substantia, quod nullo modo est non substantia.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19652

English

Following the common manner of the doctors, namely that something is predicated of God formally, I set out the next two conclusions, of which this is the first: God alone is substance in such a way that he is in no respect not-substance.

Farmer's note (farmer1998:19710) reads this and 2>48 as adopting the doctors' premise only provisionally, to draw a conclusion Pico would otherwise deny; pico_stance is accordingly given as unstated rather than endorses.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:19710; awaiting human check; re-rendered 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-FIX (D-13)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 2>48 Secunda: Deus ideo non est in genere quia est substantialiter substantia.