Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>64

Thesis 2>64

Latin

Opinio quae Auicennae ascribitur, quod illud unum, quod cum ente conuertitur sit unum quod est principium numeri, et ita consequenter quod unaquaeque res sit una per intentionem additam essentiae suae, si non est necessario uera, est tamen probabilis et defendetur a me.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 19890

English

The view that is assigned to Avicenna, namely that the one which is interchangeable with being is the one that begins number, and therefore that every single thing is one because of an intention superadded to its essence, may not be necessarily true, yet it is probable, and I will uphold it.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:19945; awaiting human check; re-rendered 2026-09-27 by TRANSLATOR-FIX (D-13)

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

• 2>63 Non debet concedi partem in toto quantitatiuo a suo toto esse / aliquo modo actu distinctam.
• 7.1 Possibile est prophetia in somnis per illustrationem intellectus agentis super animam nostram.
• 7.33 Vnum methaphysicum est fundamentum unius arithmetici.