Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>42

Thesis 3>42

Latin

Infinitas dei per superexcedentiam ad esse intellectuale et uiam mysticae theologiae probari potest, et ad id probandum omnis alia uia inefficax est.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20881

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 super excedentiam | Emendationes errorum, corrige: per superexcedentiam 1487 text emended sic

1486 prints 'super excedentiam' as two words; the Emendationes errorum corrects it to 'per superexcedentiam', which 1487 adopts. Text follows the emended reading.

English

God's infinity can only be established by his surpassing excess over intellectual being and by the path of mystical theology; every other route to proving it fails.

'mysticae theologiae' points to Pseudo-Dionysius's negative way; sense checked.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:20936; awaiting human check

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

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Mention records in the corpus: 2 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

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