Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>53

Thesis 3>53

Latin

Qui primam materiam negat, nec sensui contradicit, nec rationem physicam negat.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21086

English

Denying prime matter contradicts neither the senses nor any argument of physics.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21145; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>2 Quicquid dicant alii cabaliste, ego partem speculatiuam cabalae quadruplicem diuiderem, conrespondenter quadruplici partition: philosophiae
• 3>52 Eadem est scientia de deo, homine, et materia prima, et qui de uno scientiam habuerit, habebit et de reliquis, seruata proportione extremi a
• 3>54 Ad probandum primam materiam esse, magis certificat uel uia numerorum, uel uia catholicae philosophiae, quam ulla ratio physica in qua sensu
• 3>55 Qui ordinem hebraicae linguae profunde et radicaliter tenuerit, atque illum proportionabiliter in scientiis seruare nouerit, cuiuscunque sci
• 5>15 Per extremorum et medii rationem cognoscere possumus conuenienter uniuersi gradus sic in quinque posse diuidi: In super ens, uere ens, non u
• 7a>45 Vtrum sit dare aliquid quod secundum suam naturam sit pura potentia, quam philosophi uocant materiam primam.