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    It is not the case that Averroes argued the agent intellect is a single separate substance shared by all humans, not an internal faculty performing abstraction within individual cognizers.

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    • 1.A single external agent intellect cannot explain why individual humans possess distinct cognitive abilities, learning capacities, and intellectual limitations.
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    • 2.Empirical evidence shows brain damage impairs abstraction in individuals, indicating intellection depends on internal neural structures, not external substances.
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    • 3.Positing an unknowable separate substance explains nothing testable about cognition and violates parsimony by multiplying immaterial entities beyond necessity.
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    • 1.Universal logical principles (like non-contradiction) are identical across all minds, suggesting a shared intellective source rather than individual faculties.
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    • 2.Individual human brains differ materially, yet abstract thought achieves uniform validity, implying intellection transcends individual physical substrates.
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    • 3.If abstraction were internal to each person, accounting for shared mathematical and logical truths becomes philosophically harder than positing one universal intellect.
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