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    Challenges→The intellect's passivity is categorically different from matter's passivity.

    If indeterminate receptivity is the criterion for passivity, then distinguishing intellect from matter by appealing to qualitative change merely redescribes the problem rather than resolving it.

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    Indeterminate receptivity(used to describe a characteristic of matter or passive things)
    The quality of being able to receive or be affected by things in ways that aren't clearly defined or fixed. Think of it like a blank canvas that can be marked by anything.
    Passivity(contrasted with activity in discussing divine properties)
    The state of being acted upon or receiving action from something else, rather than causing action yourself.
    Redescribes(philosophy generally)
    Describes the same thing again, but using different words or a different framework.
    criterion(as used in philosophy to describe a test for whether an idea works)
    A standard or rule used to decide whether something counts as true or valid.
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    (Simon's Aristotelian account of the soul)
    The faculty of the rational soul whereby it thinks; it is immaterial, passive, and separate.
    matter(Kant's critical epistemology, agreeing with Leibniz on this point)
    Not a thing in itself with mind-independent characteristics, but an appearance — objects as presented to human perception, characterized by shape, contact, and movement.
    qualitative change(e.g., a statue being painted)
    A change in which a continuing subject acquires a new, accidental feature without ceasing to exist.

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