Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>57

Thesis 2>57

Latin

Rationes quas adducunt peripatetici ad probandum quod in causis essentialiter ordinatis non eatur in infinitum, non conuincunt de necessitate falsitatem positi.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19777

English

The arguments that the Peripatetics bring forward to prove that one cannot proceed to infinity among essentially ordered causes do not necessarily demonstrate the falsity of the position that one can.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19836; 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

• 2.2 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.