Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>56

Thesis 2>56

Latin

Sonum non ex motu aeris intercepti inter duo corpora se percutientia, ut tenet Aristoteles_et expositores eius, sed ex contactu tali talium uel talium corporum, talem uel talem sonum causari, dico.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19772

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 intercoepti

1486 reads 'intercoepti' for 'intercepti'; an orthographic variant, sense unaffected.

English

I hold that sound is caused not by the motion of the air trapped between two colliding bodies, as Aristotle and his commentators maintain, but by the contact, of such-and-such a kind, of such-and-such bodies, producing such-and-such a sound.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19831; 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

• 1.7 Sonus fertur secundum esse reale usque ad principium nerui auditiui.
• 2.2 Processus spiritus sancti temporalis attenditur secundum dona gratiae gratum facientia.
• 2>30 Sensus communis non est distinctus a sensu uisus, auditus, odoratus,
• 2>58 Virtutem sensitiuam sensus communis, sicuti non a uirtutibus sensitiuis sensuum exteriorum, ut dixit conclusio .xxx., ita nec a uirtutibus s
• 7.18 Nulla est uia ad probandum simpliciter abstractum esse, praeter uiam aeternitatis motus.