Plato · thesis 5>29

Thesis 5>29

Latin

Non est credendum in doctrina Platonis animam quicquam intelligere per inspectionem ad ideas, nisi cum peruenit ad illum statum qui est supremus gradus contemplatiuae perfectionis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22660

English

It must not be believed that, on Plato's teaching, the soul understands anything by looking directly to the ideas, except when it has arrived at that state which is the highest grade of contemplative perfection.

A corollary follows this thesis in the source, beginning 'Errant qui credunt...' (farmer1998:22665), that is not given in the sheet's Latin for this entry and is left untranslated here. Main clause sense checked against farmer1998:22716.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22716; 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.)
• (unidentified), Self-Knowledge, Illumination and Natural: notes on Pico sources (n.d.)

Mention records in the corpus: 3 (deterministic harvest; see Method).