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    It is not the case that The analogy between intellection and vision is incomplete

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    • 1.In vision, the visible object is visible in itself without requiring an external act to make it visible
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    • 2.The quiddity in the sensory representation is not intelligible in itself but must be made intelligible by the agent intellect
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    • 1.Aquinas in De Anima commentary argues the agent intellect is internal to the soul, functioning analogously to the sun illuminating the visual field from within the cognitive system.
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    • 2.A disanalogy requires that the enabling condition be structurally alien to the faculty, but both light and agent intellect are intrinsic activating principles of their respective perceptual orders.
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    • 3.Therefore the intelligibility-conferring act of the agent intellect mirrors rather than disrupts the structural logic of Aristotelian vision, preserving the analogy's core.
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    • 1.In Aristotelian optics, vision requires an external medium (the transparent) to actualize color, so visible objects are not purely self-presenting.
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    • 2.If even physical vision depends on an enabling condition outside the object itself, the agent intellect's role marks a difference of degree, not a fundamental asymmetry that breaks the analogy.
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