Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>25

Thesis 3>25

Latin

Nisi destruamus naturam intellectualem, non possumus intelligere ideas numerari, nisi per intimationem ideae numeri per reliquas, sicut est cuiuslibet per omnes.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20643; 1486 print folio <19r/19v>

English

Short of destroying the intellectual nature, the only way we can understand the ideas as numbered is through the number-idea being intimated by the rest of the ideas, the way any single idea is intimated through all the others.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:20706; awaiting human check

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

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