Book of Causes · thesis 6>6

Thesis 6>6

Latin

Quod dicit Abucaten, intelligentiam esse substantiam quae non diuiditur, maxime est uerum per indiscretam in ea intelligibilium ad inuicem penetrationem.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23458

English

Abucaten's claim that intelligence is an undivided substance holds true above all because the intelligibles within it interpenetrate one another without any separation.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23513; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23513; 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>7 Ex praecedenti conclusione potest haberi quomodo intelligendum est dictum Abucaten, quod omnis intelligentia est plena formis.
• 6>8 Per ultimam propositionem Abucaten possumus intelligere quid sibi uelit illa diuisio quam fecit Plato in principio tractatus Timei, et possu