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    Challenges→The agent intellect makes the quiddity in the sensory representation universal and immaterial through abstraction

    If abstraction is performed by a transcendent agent intellect rather than the individual soul, the resulting universal thought cannot be genuinely possessed by the individual knower.

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    Genuinely possessed(in epistemology)
    Actually owned or truly belonging to someone in a real and complete way, not just borrowed or partially understood.
    Knower(referring to whoever possesses knowledge)
    A person or mind that has knowledge or understanding of something.
    Universal thought(in epistemology)
    An idea or concept that applies to many things in the same way—like the idea of 'redness' that applies to all red objects, rather than a specific thought about one particular thing.
    abstraction(Godfrey, Quodlibet V, q. 10)
    The process by which the agent intellect draws out potentially intelligible content from phantasms, making that content available to the possible intellect
    agent intellect(Godfrey's theory of intellectual knowledge)

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    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
    individual soul(Mulla Sadra's philosophy of soul-body relation)
    The bearer and vehicle of its body, which comes into existence with the body and functions as the entelechy of the body
    transcendent(Rickert's epistemological framework)
    To really exist without the form of being-conscious (Bewußtheit)

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