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    It is not the case that If the agent intellect is identified with God as universal intelligibility principle, the particularity of individual human intellectual acts becomes causally inexplicable without positing direct divine intervention in each act of thought.

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    • 1.Human cognitive capacities (abstraction, judgment) can explain particularity without invoking divine intervention in each act.
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    • 2.The agent intellect need not be God; it can be an emergent human faculty mediating universal forms and particular thoughts.
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    • 3.Requiring direct divine intervention makes empirical psychology impossible and renders human intellect causally inert.
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    • 1.If intelligibility is universal and transcendent, it cannot originate from particular finite minds without external causation.
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    • 2.Particularity of human thought requires explanation of how universal principles become individuated in specific acts.
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    • 3.Without divine mediation, the gap between abstract intelligibility and concrete cognition remains metaphysically unbridged.
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