Philosophical, against the common view · thesis 2>78

Thesis 2>78

Latin

Accidentia nullo modo debent dici entia, sed entis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20207

English

Accidents should in no way be called beings, but of a being.

Distinguishes 'ens' (a being, said properly of substance) from 'entis' (of a being, the genitive proper to an accident's mode of existing).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-25 by TRANSLATOR-T05; sense checked against farmer1998:20235; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 2>, philosophical conclusions dissenting from the common philosophy) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

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