From the library of the Reverend Lord Antonio Albrizzi of Casale.

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FROM THE NINE HUNDRED WRITTEN PROPOSITIONS: ON DIALECTICS, MORALS, PHYSICS, MATHEMATICS, Metaphysics, Theology, Magic, and Cabala: Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Count of Concordia, will debate publicly his own views as well as the teachings of the wise Chaldeans, Arabs, Hebrews, Greeks, Egyptians, and Latins. In reciting these, he has not imitated the elegance of the Roman tongue referring to classical Ciceronian Latin but rather the style of speaking used by the most celebrated Parisian disputants the "scholastic" style of the University of Paris, because nearly all philosophers of our time use it. Furthermore, the dogmas to be debated are arranged as follows: those pertaining to specific nations and the heresiarchs leaders of heretical sects themselves are set apart; those pertaining to the branches of philosophy are mixed together indiscriminately, as if in a medley.

¶ Conclusions according to the doctrine of the Latin philosophers and theologians: Albert the Great, Thomas Aquinas, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, Giles of Rome, and Francis of Meyronnes.

SIXTEEN CONCLUSIONS ACCORDING TO ALBERT Albertus Magnus, 13th-century Dominican scholar and teacher of Thomas Aquinas

¶ Intelligible species the mental images or forms used in the process of understanding are not necessary, and to posit them is not consistent with the views of good Peripatetics followers of Aristotle.
¶ Even if all individuals of the human species were destroyed, this statement remains true: "Man is an animal."
¶ This statement belongs to the fourth mode of essential predication: "Man is man."
¶ In every point of matter, there exist through a "habit of beginning" the potential essences of all natural forms, which are co-eternal with matter according to the philosophers, but created alongside it according to the Faith.
¶ A form does not vary in its essence during intensification or weakening, but only in its state of being.
¶ The separated soul the soul after death understands through species created together with it from the beginning of its existence; it uses these either never or rarely while it is in the body.
¶ Sound is carried according to its real being as far as the beginning of the auditory nerve.
¶ Light has only an "intentional" being a non-material or representational existence in the medium through which it passes.
¶ The organ of hearing is the nerve expanded toward the hollow of the ear.
¶ The object of the "common sense" the faculty that integrates the five senses in and of itself is magnitude, as Avicenna Ibn Sina, the Persian philosopher rightly said.