Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>77

Thesis 2>77

Latin

Quod dicitur a communi schola philosophantium omnium latinorum de prima operatione intellectus error est, quia non est alia operatio partis rationalis quam illae duae quas ipsi secundam et tertiam ponunt, compositio scilicet et discursus.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20112

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486, 1487 scola

The sheet reads 'quar' for 'quam'; an obvious OCR misreading, restored to 'quam'.

English

What the common school of all Latin philosophers teaches about the first operation of the intellect is a mistake, for the rational part has no operation beyond the two that they themselves reckon as second and third, namely composition and discursive reasoning.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:20174; 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

• M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (2008)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).