Pico della Mirandola, Conclusiones (1486) SectionsThe thirteen condemnedScholarshipMethod

Theological, against the common mode · thesis 4>6

Thesis 4>6

Latin

Intuitus diuinae cognitionis ad creaturas tanquam obiecta primaria uel secundaria formaliter non terminatur, ut dicit communis schola theologorum, sed se tantum et nihil aliud a se intuens primarie nec secundarie, unitiue et eminenter, et plus quam aequipollenter, omnia cognoscit. Correlarium: Non est aliqua multitudo intellectorum in deo, nec creature ut intellecte ponunt in numerum cum diuina essentia ut intellecta, sed est penitus unum simplicissimum intellectum.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 21559

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 tantum.& nihil | 1486 primariae nec secundariae | 1487 primarie nec secundane

1486 punctuates 'tantum.& nihil' and reads 'primariae nec secundariae'; 1487 reads 'primarie nec secundane'.

English

The gaze of divine cognition does not terminate formally on creatures as primary or secondary objects, as the common school of theologians holds; rather, beholding only itself and nothing besides — neither as a primary nor a secondary object — it knows all things in a unitive, elevated way that exceeds mere equivalence to the task. Corollary: there is no plurality of things understood in God, nor do creatures, as understood, add up to a number alongside the divine essence as understood; at bottom there is but one utterly simple understanding.

Sense checked; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T06b; sense checked against farmer1998:21619; awaiting human check

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