Vera methaphysica, tradita methaphysicaliter, est de quolibet quod est uera forma ut de primo subiecto, et de quolibet quod est secundum suum esse formale tanquam de obiecto secundario, in modo procedendi demonstrationem negligens.
Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20351
English
True metaphysics, handed down metaphysically, treats whatever is a true form as its primary subject, and whatever exists according to its formal being as its secondary object, and in its manner of proceeding sets demonstration aside.
Parallels 3>8's structure for metaphysics rather than theology; sense checked.
Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:20410; awaiting human check
Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 3>, paradoxical conclusions introducing new doctrines) · Pico's stance: endorses
Farmer's cross-references
1.14Corpus mobile est subiectum scientiae naturalis.
18.8Methaphysicus et dialecticus aeque de omnibus disputant, sed ille demonstratiue, hic probabiliter.
3>10Sicut in creatura non ualet consequentia: Est ens, ergo est, ita / in deo non ualet: Est, ergo est ens.