Collapsing the agent intellect into God conflates the formal cause of intelligibility with the efficient cause of being, a category error Aristotle's distinction of causes was designed to prevent.
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The quality of being understandable or making logical sense.
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
efficient cause(Used in contrast to a planning or formal cause; someone who rejects the argument from design denies there is an efficient cause of natural order.)
The active power or agent responsible for bringing something into existence or producing a change.
formal cause(Used to derive the transcendental concept of truth from the concept of being.)
The cause in virtue of which matter is enformed and a thing becomes what it is.