Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>28

Thesis 3>28

Latin

Rectius ad quinque suprascripta reducitur entium diuersitas quam ad decem quae Architas primum, deinde Aristoteles posuit, uel quinque quae ponit Plotinus, uel ad quatuor quae ponunt stoici.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20656

English

The diversity among beings reduces more correctly to the five categories set down above than to the ten posited first by Archytas and then by Aristotle, or to the five proposed by Plotinus, or to the four posited by the Stoics.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:20719; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>27 Quinque ponenda sunt prima praedicamenta: Vnum, Substantia, Quantitas, Qualitas, et Ad aliquid.
• 3>29 Ratio predicamenti unius est absoluta praecisio ab omni extraneo.
• 3>30 Ratio praedicamenti substantiae est unita perfectio inparticipatae substantiae.
• 3>31 Ratio praedicamenti quantitatis est extrapositio partis ad partem.
• 3>32 Ratio praedicamenti qualitatis est ueritas denominationis per inherentem participationem.
• 3>33 Ratio praedicamenti ad aliquid est esse imaginarium.
• 4>5 Attributales perfectiones nec in deo, nec secundum se quiditatiue sumptae, dicunt diuersas rationes in recto, et principaliter diffinibiles