Plato · thesis 5>41

Thesis 5>41

Latin

Licet natura intellectualis simul omnia intelligat, non tamen hoc est per uirtualem et unitiuam continentiam, sed per mutuam penetrationem formarum, et indissociatam concatenationem totius esse participati, id est, formalis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22877

English

Although the intellectual nature understands all things at once, this is not through a virtual and unifying containment of them, but through the mutual interpenetration of forms and the inseparable chaining together of the whole of participated—that is, formal—being.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22935; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22935; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>1 Sicut esse proprietatum praeceditur ab esse quiditatiuo, ita esse quiditatiuum praeceditur ab esse uniali.
• 3>25 Nisi destruamus naturam intellectualem, non possumus intelligere ideas numerari, nisi per intimationem ideae numeri per re/liquas, sicut est
• 6>6 Quod dicit Abucaten, intelligentiam esse substantiam quae non diuiditur, maxime est uerum per indiscretam in ea intelligibilium ad inuicem p