Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>54

Thesis 2>54

Latin

Iste propositiones sunt concedende ut omnino uere: Materia prima fit asinus, bos, et similia.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19764

English

These propositions must be granted as wholly true: prime matter becomes a donkey, an ox, and the like.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19823; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Amos Edelheit, A Philosopher at the Crossroads: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola's Encounter with Scholastic Philosophy (2022)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 1.4 In quolibet puncto materiae sunt per habitum inchoationis potestatiuum