Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>16

Thesis 3>16

Latin

Rationabiliter posuit Aristoteles in suis scientiis primum principium de quolibet dici alterum contradictoriorum, et de nullo simul.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20455

English

Aristotle reasonably posited, within his sciences, the first principle that of anything one or the other of two contradictories must be said to hold, and never both of the same thing at once.

Restates the law of non-contradiction as Aristotle's first principle within his sciences, distinct from the coincidence of contradictories claimed of the intellectual/unial natures in 3>13-15; sense checked.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:20511; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

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

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