If even physical vision depends on an enabling condition outside the object itself, the agent intellect's role marks a difference of degree, not a fundamental asymmetry that breaks the analogy.

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Enabling condition(describing what makes thinking happen): Something that makes an event or process possible—it's like the basic requirement that needs to be in place for something to happen.
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
analogy(Contrasted with homology, which concerns correspondence due to common ancestry.): A relation based on functional similarity between structures, which can occur despite different evolutionary origins.
difference of degree(as used in metaphysics and philosophy): A difference in amount or intensity rather than in kind—like the difference between hot and cold water (both water, just different temperatures).

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