If the phantasma's intelligible structures are pre-formed by a universal external intellect, the patibilis intellect's 'selection' operates only within a range it did not itself constitute.
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In medieval philosophy, a single supreme mind (often God or a divine intelligence) that exists outside individual people and structures all reality.
patibilis intellect(Zabarella's epistemology and philosophy of mind)
Zabarella's term for the human intellect, redefined as both active and passive — capable of selecting, abstracting, judging, and thereby becoming itself the object of knowledge — in contrast to the traditional purely passive 'possible intellect' (possibilis)
phantasma(Zabarella's epistemology of intellection)
A sensory image or representation gained through sense-perception; material in nature and therefore containing the universal structure required for scientific knowledge only in a confused and unintelligible way.