Plato · thesis 5>7

Thesis 5>7

Latin

Cum dicit Plato in Timao in medio mundi positam animam, quicquid dicant caeteri Platonici, ego per medium lunam intelligo.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22237

Apparatus (Farmer): 1486 coeten

1486 print reads 'coeten' for 'caeteri' (farmer1998:22247).

English

When Plato says in the Timaeus that the soul is placed in the middle of the world, I—whatever the other Platonists may say—understand the moon by 'the middle.'

Sense checked against farmer1998:22302; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22302; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 5>, conclusions on the doctrine of Plato) · Pico's stance: endorses

Discussed in

• (author to be confirmed from front matter), Erkenntnistheorie und christliche Kabbalah: Das Paradigma des Pico della Mirandola (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 1 (deterministic harvest; see Method).

Farmer's cross-references

• 11>1 Quicquid dicant caeteri Cabaliste, ego prima diuisione scientiam Cabalae in scientiam sephiroth et semot, tanquam in practicam / et speculat
• 23.9 Cum dicit Plato in mundi medio positam animam, de inparticipata anima debet intelligi, quam ideo in medio dicit positam, quia aequaliter omn
• 2>13 Sex transcendentia quae ponit communis doctrina_a iunioribus latinis sunt efficta; ea et graeci peripatetici, et princeps eorum Aristoteles
• 5>8 Infra ambitum terminati entis recte quinque illa Platonis pro transcendentibus ponuntur: Ens, Idem, Alterum, Status, et Motus.