Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>76

Thesis 2>76

Latin

Sicut quilibet philosophus habet dicere quod uirtutes sensitiue sunt in corde, ita quilibet medicus habet dicere quod sint in cerebro.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20108; 1486 print folio <18r/18v>

The sheet's line-break slash in 'sensitiue / sunt' is repaired to a space.

English

Just as it falls to every philosopher to locate the sensitive faculties in the heart, so it falls to every physician to place them in the brain.

Farmer's note (farmer1998:20170) reads this as a secular double-truth harmonizing Aristotle and Galen; both claims form Pico's own reconciling formula rather than a report of a single ascribed view, so pico_stance is given as endorses.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05, reworded 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-FIX; sense checked against farmer1998:20170; 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>1 Potest a specie in sensu exteriori existente immediate abstrahi species uniuersalis.
• 2>31 Non dari species intelligibiles a phantasmatibus abstractas et ut ueram, et commentatoris et Alberti sententiam, asserimus.
• 4>8 Christus non ueraciter et quantum ad realem presentiam descendit ad inferos ut ponit Thommas et communis uia, sed solum quo ad effectum.