Averroes argued that the material intellect is neither a form in matter nor matter itself, yet shares matter's indeterminacy — making passivity a structural feature independent of materiality.

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Averroes(as Al-Ghazali's philosophical opponent): A 12th-century Islamic philosopher (also called Ibn Rushd) who believed Aristotle's logic could be combined with Islamic theology, and who disagreed with Al-Ghazali about how creation works.
Form in matter(what the material intellect is NOT, according to Averroes): An Aristotelian idea that physical objects are combinations of two things: matter (the stuff they're made of) and form (the shape or pattern that makes them what they are).
Materiality(what passivity is independent from, according to Averroes): The quality of being made of physical matter or being physical rather than purely mental or abstract.
Passivity(contrasted with activity in discussing divine properties): The state of being acted upon or receiving action from something else, rather than causing action yourself.
Structural feature(as what the statement claims configuration-space separation is): A fundamental, built-in aspect of how something works—as opposed to something that just happens to occur by chance.
indeterminacy(Decision-making under uncertainty in political and legal contexts): Uncertainty or lack of definite knowledge afflicting one or more conditions of a decision procedure, making it impossible to fully specify choices and their outcomes
material intellect(Avicenna's theory of cognition): The faculty through which forms inhere in the soul-intellect when received from the Active Intellect

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