Questions to be answered by numbers · thesis 7a>73

Thesis 7a>73

Latin

Cur naturalis sit homini modus cognoscendi per rationem phantasiae coniunctam.

Copy-text: Farmer 1998, line 24622

Why it is natural to man to know by a reason joined to the imaginative faculty.

Sense checked against Farmer's English at farmer1998:24677; 'the imaginative faculty' varies Farmer's 'the phantasy' as a rendering of 'phantasiae'.

Translation: machine-drafted 2026-09-26 by TRANSLATOR-T08b; sense checked against farmer1998:24677; awaiting human check

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

11>72 Sicut uera astrologia docet nos legere in libro dei, ita Cabala docet nos legere in libro legis.
22.4 Omnis anima participans uulcanio intellectu seminatur in lunam.
5>19 Possibile est ut pars rationalis animae nostrae, quam secundum peripateticos possibilem intellectum uoco, ad hoc perueniat, ut sine coniunct
5>29 Non est credendum in doctrina Platonis animam quicquam intelligere per inspectionem ad ideas, nisi cum peruenit ad illum statum qui est supr
5>30 Modus cognoscendi per ideas est ille cuius dixit Plato in Timeo paucos homines esse participes, sed bene deos omnes.
7a>74 Vtrum in caelo sint descripta et significata omnia cuilibet scienti legere.