Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>47

Thesis 3>47

Latin

Melius potest saluare textus Aristotelis qui dicit omnem animam esse immortalem, quam qui dicit omnem animam esse mortalem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 20980

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 salvari | 1486 Emendationes errorum, corrige: salvare | 1487 text not emended

1486 reads 'salvari', corrected by the Emendationes errorum to 'salvare'; 1487 leaves the text unemended.

English

Whoever maintains that every soul is immortal does more justice to Aristotle's text than whoever maintains that every soul is mortal.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21036; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 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.