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    It is not the case that Ibn Rushd (Averroes) argued that the material intellect is a single, unified substance shared by all humans, making individual intellectual principles explanatorily superfluous for explaining particular persons.

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    • 1.Personal intellectual agency and responsibility require that each individual possess their own intellective faculty; shared intellect undermines accountability.
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    • 2.We observe distinct thinking patterns, knowledge states, and cognitive differences between persons that a unified intellect cannot adequately explain.
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    • 3.If intellect is truly shared and unified, individual persons become epiphenomenal—yet personal thought clearly causes individual action and identity.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.All humans demonstrate universal logical capacities (reason, abstraction, deduction), suggesting a shared underlying intellectual substrate.
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    • 2.A unified material intellect elegantly explains how individuals can grasp the same universal truths without requiring separate intellective substances.
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    • 3.Positing individual intellectual principles multiplies entities unnecessarily when a single shared intellect accounts for the same phenomena.
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