The demand for a forma corporeitatis distinct from the soul illicitly treats the soul's animating function as separable from its constitutive role, conflating two aspects of one act.

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Conflating: Conflating means mixing together or treating two different things as if they were the same thing, when they're actually distinct. It's a logical error where someone blurs important differences between concepts, ideas, or situations to make an argument seem stronger than it is. For example, conflating "being critical of a policy" with "being disloyal to your country" wrongly equates two separate things.
Separable(Distinguishing understanding from belief): Able to exist or be considered apart from something else—in this case, suggesting understanding can stand on its own without requiring faith.
animating function(explaining what the soul does): The role of giving life, movement, or activity to something—in this case, how the soul is thought to make a body alive and active.
constitutive role(how human understanding actually works according to this philosophical position): The idea that the subject (the person experiencing) actively shapes or creates what they know, rather than passively receiving knowledge from the world.

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