Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>61

Thesis 2>61

Latin

De materia ut ex ea per se fiunt res tractare methaphysicum, physicum autem ut ex ea res fiunt per accidens, habemus dicere secundum doctrinam Aristotelis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19878

English

We must say, following Aristotle's teaching, that it belongs to the metaphysician to treat matter as that from which things come to be in themselves, and to the physicist to treat it as that from which things come to be accidentally.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19932; 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

• 1.14 Corpus mobile est subiectum scientiae naturalis.
• 1>16 An corpus compositum accipiat physicus a methaphysico, discordare fundamentaliter non possunt Auenrois et Auicenna, et si uerbis discrepent.
• 2>62 Dictio exclusiua, addita uni relatiuo, correlatiuum non excludit.
• 2>63 Non debet concedi partem in toto quantitatiuo a suo toto esse / aliquo modo actu distinctam.
• 2>64 Opinio quae Auicennae ascribitur, quod illud unum, quod cum ente conuertitur sit unum quod est principium numeri, et ita consequenter quod u
• 3>19 Vnumquodque in natura intellectuali habet a sua intelligibili unitate et quod quodlibet sibi uniat, et quod immaculatam ac inpermixtam sibi
• 4.16 Relatio creaturae ad deum est idem realiter fundamento, distincta formaliter et ex natura rei.
• 7.1 Possibile est prophetia in somnis per illustrationem intellectus agentis super animam nostram.
• 7.33 Vnum methaphysicum est fundamentum unius arithmetici.