Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Paradoxical, new doctrines · thesis 3>65

Thesis 3>65

Latin

Quia intellectus animalis differt ab intellectu intellectuali ut pars media, non ut pars tantum, ideo intellectuali totalitati magis parificatur.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21274; 1486 print folio <20v/21r>

English

Because the animate intellect stands apart from the purely intellectual intellect as a middle term rather than as a mere fragment of it, it comes closer to matching the intellectual whole.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21323; 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).