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    The agent intellect makes the quiddity in the sensory representation universal and immaterial through abstraction

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    • 1.The quiddity in the sensory representation is material and particular
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    • 2.The agent intellect performs an act of abstraction on the quiddity in the sensory representation
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    • 3.Abstraction transforms the material and particular quiddity into something universal and immaterial
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    • 1.Averroes argued the agent intellect is a single separate substance shared by all humans, not an internal faculty performing abstraction within individual cognizers.
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    • 2.If abstraction is performed by a transcendent agent intellect rather than the individual soul, the resulting universal thought cannot be genuinely possessed by the individual knower.
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    • 3.Simon's account therefore conflates the causal trigger of intellection with the subject of intellection, undermining personal cognitive responsibility.
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    • 1.Abstraction as described presupposes a prior capacity to recognize universality, making the process circular (Geach's 'abstraction myth').
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    • 2.No purely causal-mechanical operation on a particular image can yield a genuinely universal content without importing normativity from outside the process.
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    The agent intellect endows the quiddity with intelligibility: through its act of abstraction it makes universal and immaterial the material and particular quiddity in the sensory representation (In De an.: q.12 and q.16). Simon, however, wavers between different descriptions of the act of abstraction. On one hand, he describes it as similar to the act of illumination, so that just as light enables the eye to see and the visible object to be seen, so the agent intellect enables the possible intel
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