Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>63

Thesis 3>63

Latin

Quamuis in anima ita sit actu natura intellectualis per quam cum angelo conuenit, sicut est natura rationalis per quam ab eo distinguitur, nihil tamen intrinsecum est in ea, per quod possit sine propria specie aliquid a se distinctum intelligere.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21264

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 distinguitur. Nihil

1486 punctuates 'distinguitur. Nihil' as beginning a new sentence; sense unaffected.

English

The soul does actually possess an intellectual nature by which it agrees with the angel, just as it possesses a rational nature by which it is set apart from the angel; even so, nothing intrinsic to it lets it understand anything distinct from itself without a proper species of its own.

Sense checked; no further crux beyond the apparatus punctuation noted above.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21311; awaiting human check

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

Discussed in

• M. V. Dougherty (ed.), Pico della Mirandola: New Essays (2008)

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