Theological, against the common mode · thesis 4>4

Thesis 4>4

Latin

Si ponamus deum cognoscere creaturas ut obiectum secundarium suae intuitionis, ut communiter ponitur, dico quod pater prius producit uerbum quam creaturas cognoscat.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21549; 1486 print folio <21r/21v>

English

Supposing, as is commonly held, that God knows creatures as a secondary object of his intuition, I say that the Father produces the Word before knowing created things.

Argued conditionally from the common view's own premise; Pico's own account of divine cognition departs from an ordinary act of intellect altogether (cf. 3>43).

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21609; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 4>, theological conclusions differing from the common way of the theologians) · Pico's stance: endorses