Questions to be answered by numbers · thesis 7a>8

Thesis 7a>8

Latin

An esse quiditatiuum rei sit intimius esse quod habeat res.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 23911

English

Whether a thing's quidditative being is the most intimate being that it has.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:23966; 'being' varies Farmer's 'existence' for 'esse'.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:23966; awaiting human check

Attribution: Pico's own list of questions to be answered through numbers (section 7a>) · Pico's stance: unstated

Farmer's cross-references

• 7a>10 Quomodo elementa sint in caelo.
• 7a>11 Quis modus debeat teneri in inuestigatione uniuscuiusque scibilis.
• 7a>9 Quid de humanitate in sua precisissima abstractione possit praedicari, et quid non.