Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>50

Thesis 2>50

Latin

Differentia quae inter suprascripta accidentia apparet ex sola uoluntaria nominum impositione originatur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19666

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 voluntate | Emendationes errorum, corrige: voluntaria | 1487 text emended sic

1486 reads 'uoluntate' where the Emendationes errorum corrects to 'uoluntaria' (the reading given here and in 1487).

English

The difference that appears between the accidents named above arises solely from the arbitrary imposition of names.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19725; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

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