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    Intellection is not a process automatically determined by... — Carmelics
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    Intellection is not a process automatically determined by exterior impulse, but depends essentially on human will and intention

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    • 1.The patibilis intellect selects and abstracts only those structures it chooses to contemplate from what is offered by the illuminated phantasma
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    • 2.Judgement and understanding arise from the intellect's own act of selection and contemplation, not from the mere reception of an external impulse
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    • 1.Averroes argued that the active intellect is a single separate substance whose illumination determines the content available to all human intellects uniformly.
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    • 2.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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    • 3.Apparent volitional selection among pre-constituted intelligibles is insufficient to establish that intellection is not fundamentally determined by exterior impulse.
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that what we call 'will' is itself produced by prior impressions, passions, and causal antecedents beyond the agent's control.
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    • 2.If the intellect's selective attention is itself causally determined by prior states, invoking 'will' merely relocates rather than resolves the problem of external determination.
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    Therefore with the metaphysical requirements of intellection taken for granted, the main epistemological problem shifted to the manner in which the intelligible species was turned into a known object. Zabarella, considering the agent intellect as the divine cause of general intelligibility, could renounce innate principles and retain the Aristotelian teaching of the inductive acquisition of the first principles themselves. But Zabarella had instead the problem of restoring to the human mind an
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