 Del Medigo’s first investigation thus concerns the question whether the material intellect is a single substance, shared by all human beings, or whether each of us possesses her own intellect (Del Medigo 1482: f. 1r). Del Medigo’s method in discussing the question is a dialectical one, close to that of a Scholastic quaestio—considering the arguments for and against the proposed thesis (that the material intellect is one in number), before arriving at his own (Del Medigo’s) conclusion, following Averroes’ lead in the long commentary on the De anima. Del Medigo’s Two Investigations is therefore, at its core, an attempt to both clarify Averroes’ unicity thesis to Pico as well as illustrating its validity, and Del Medigo does so initially by a reductio ad absurdum of competing interpretations. Del Medigo first argues against those who claimed the intellects are many in number, i.e., that each of us possesses her own intellect. This, in turn, can be interpreted in two ways, which Del Medigo identifies as two concrete positions in the history of philosophy: