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    It is not the case that The agent intellect makes the quiddity in the sensory representation universal and immaterial through abstraction

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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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    • 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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