Plato · thesis 5>44

Thesis 5>44

Latin

Cur homo non possit non uideri si sit presens a recte disposito in potentia uisiua, demon autem tunc solum uideatur cum uult uideri, ex modo quo unusquisque eorum uidetur haberi potest.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 22892

English

Consider the manner in which each is seen, and you will grasp why a man, once present before someone rightly equipped to see, cannot help being seen, whereas a demon becomes visible only when it chooses to be.

Sense checked against farmer1998:22951; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:22951; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 22.9 Duplex est malorum demonum genus; alterum animae sunt et substantiales demones; alterum materiales potentiae et accidentales demones.
• 5>43 Sicut et uidetur et auditur homo ab homine per motionem sensus ad extra, ita et uidetur et auditur demon ab homine et a demone per motionem
• 5>45 Sensus naturae quem ponunt Alchindus, Bacon, Guilielmus Parisiensis, et quidam alii, maxime autem omnes magi, nihil est aliud quam sensus ue