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    It is not the case that 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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    • 1.If the material intellect shares matter's indeterminacy but lacks matter, what grounds this shared property? The analogy seems stipulated, not explained.
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    • 2.Passivity without materiality struggles to explain how non-material intellect receives and retains determinate intelligible forms.
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    • 3.Averroes conflates logical indeterminacy (potential for any form) with metaphysical indeterminacy (lacking intrinsic nature), obscuring the distinction.
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    • 1.Passivity (receptivity to forms) need not require material composition; immaterial substances can be passive recipients of actualization.
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    • 2.Indeterminacy characterizes potentiality itself, which is logically distinct from matter—making Averroes' separation metaphysically coherent.
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    • 3.The material intellect's inability to be a form-in-matter avoids infinite regress problems that plague competing Aristotelian accounts.
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