Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>31

Thesis 3>31

Latin

Ratio praedicamenti quantitatis est extrapositio partis ad partem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20668

English

What defines the category of quantity is the setting of part outside part.

Echoes the language used of the soul in 3>18; sense checked.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:20732; 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>28 Rectius ad quinque suprascripta reducitur entium diuersitas quam ad decem quae Architas primum, deinde Aristoteles posuit, uel quinque quae
• 3>29 Ratio predicamenti unius est absoluta praecisio ab omni extraneo.
• 3>30 Ratio praedicamenti substantiae est unita perfectio inparticipatae substantiae.
• 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