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    It is not the case that Intellection is not a process automatically determined by exterior impulse, but depends essentially on human will and intention

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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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    • 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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