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    A disanalogy requires that the enabling condition be structurally alien to the faculty, but both light and agent intellect are intrinsic activating principles of their respective perceptual orders.

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    Enabling condition(describing what makes thinking happen)
    Something that makes an event or process possible—it's like the basic requirement that needs to be in place for something to happen.
    Faculty(in philosophy of mind)
    A distinct mental ability or power, like reason, emotion, or desire—treated as a separate part of the mind.
    agent intellect(Godfrey's theory of intellectual knowledge)
    A distinct power of the individual human soul that abstracts potentially intelligible content from phantasms and illuminates phantasms so they can actualize the possible intellect
    disanalogy(in logic and argumentation)
    A way that two things are NOT similar or don't match up in the way someone claimed they did; pointing out where a comparison breaks down.
    intrinsic activating principles

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    (as used in metaphysics and causation)
    Internal forces or causes that start an action or process from within something, rather than from outside.
    perceptual orders(as used in epistemology and perception)
    Different systems or levels of how we perceive and understand the world through our senses and mind.
    structurally alien(as used in metaphysics)
    Fundamentally different in basic nature or composition; completely unlike in essential ways.

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