Book of Causes · thesis 6>5

Thesis 6>5

Latin

Cum dixit Abucaten causam primam superiorem esse omni narratione, non tam propter id habet ueritatem quod primo affert, quia scilicet causam ante se non habet, quam propter id quod secundario innuit, quia omne intelligibile unialiter antecedit.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23452

English

Abucaten calls the first cause too high for any account of it to reach; this holds true less because of his first point—that it has no cause before it—than because of his second, unstated one: that it precedes everything intelligible in a mode of pure oneness.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23507; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23507; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own opinion (section 6>, on the Book of Causes) · Pico's stance: endorses

Farmer's cross-references

• 3>25 Nisi destruamus naturam intellectualem, non possumus intelligere ideas numerari, nisi per intimationem ideae numeri per re/liquas, sicut est
• 5>41 Licet natura intellectualis simul omnia intelligat, non tamen hoc est per uirtualem et unitiuam continentiam, sed per mutuam penetrationem f
• 6>6 Quod dicit Abucaten, intelligentiam esse substantiam quae non diuiditur, maxime est uerum per indiscretam in ea intelligibilium ad inuicem p
• 6>7 Ex praecedenti conclusione potest haberi quomodo intelligendum est dictum Abucaten, quod omnis intelligentia est plena formis.