Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>6

Thesis 3>6

Latin

Sicut cognitio per demonstrationem habita homini, pro communi statu quem hic experimur, est perfectissima cognitio, ita simpliciter inter cognitiones est imperfectissima.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20336

English

Knowledge gained by demonstration is, for the common condition we experience here, the most perfect knowledge available to man; yet considered absolutely, among all kinds of knowledge it is the least perfect.

Contrasts a relative perfection (for our present state) with knowledge's absolute rank; sense checked.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:20394; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 3>, paradoxical conclusions introducing new doctrines) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (2008)
• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 4 (deterministic harvest; see Method).