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Nine Books on the Nature of Things
Attributed to Paracelsus · Diotimos Editions · 2026
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The text says maternal imagination is very often the cause of the alleged altered outcome; it does not state that it is always the sole cause. Similar frequency words describe the strange forms of artificially produced creatures. Keeping these adverbs visible prevents a local claim about frequent causation from becoming a universal law. They do not make the underlying maternal-impression theory valid, but they determine the force of its assertion.
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- Book 1 · Generation · Passage 5Latin“imaginatio ipsius est saepissime in causa”