Book of Causes · thesis 6>8

Thesis 6>8

Latin

Per ultimam propositionem Abucaten possumus intelligere quid sibi uelit illa diuisio quam fecit Plato in principio tractatus Timei, et possumus scire quod sub ea non comprehenditur anima nisi per uiam extremalis conbinationis.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23542; 1486 print folio <25v/26r>

English

Abucaten's final proposition lets us grasp the point of the division Plato draws at the start of the Timaeus, and lets us see that the soul falls under it only by way of a combination of the two extremes.

Sense checked against farmer1998:23575; no further crux.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T07b; sense checked against farmer1998:23575; awaiting human check

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

Farmer's cross-references

• 21.1 Intellectus agens nihil est aliud quam pars animae quae sursum manet et non cadit.
• 21.2 Anima habet apud se rerum species, et excitatur tantum ab extrinsecis rebus.
• 21.3 Ad complementum praecedentis conclusionis, quam non solum Adelandus, sed omnes Mauri dicunt, dico ego illas species actu et substantialiter
• 22.11 Plato in principio tractatus Timei de extremis tantum determinat, id est de eo quod uere est nullo modo genitum, et de eo quod uere genitum