Principle 2: nothing depends on itself — dependence is on another
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Second principle: nothing depends on itself.
Whatever depends, depends on another.
Self-dependence would make the same thing prior and posterior to itself.
Latin
XII. Est etiam extra dubium, nihil pendere a seipso: sed quicquid dependet, ab alio dependere. Ratio manifesta est: nam si aliquid penderet a seipso, idem esset seipso prius & posterius. Quod enim dependet, posterius est eo unde dependet.