Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>46

Thesis 3>46

Latin

Dato quocunque obiecto practicabili, nobilior est operatio quae eum practicat quam quae eum contemplatur, si caetera sint paria.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20976

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 coetera

1486 reads 'coetera' for 'caetera'.

English

For any object capable of being acted on, all else being equal, the operation that acts on it outranks the operation that merely contemplates it.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21032; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• Jean-Marc Mandosio, Beyond Pico della Mirandola: John Dee's formal numbers and real cabala (2012)

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>47 Melius potest saluare textus Aristotelis qui dicit omnem animam esse immortalem, quam qui dicit omnem animam esse mortalem.
• 3>48 Praeter tria demonstrationis genera, quia, propter quid, et simpliciter, quae ponunt Aristoteles et commentator, datur quartum genus demonst
• 7.10 Tres modi per se sunt ad demonstrationem utiles: primus, secundus et quartus.