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    It is not the case that The divine intellect illumines the human intellect during the act of intellection

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    • 1.The sun-eye analogy is disanalogous: light is a physical medium, but intellection operates without a spatial medium between intellect and object.
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    • 2.Aquinas argues in Summa Theologiae I q.79 that the agent intellect is an intrinsic faculty of the human soul, not a participation in divine light during discrete acts.
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    • 3.If illumination is continuous and universal, it cannot explain the empirical variability in human intellectual achievement across individuals and circumstances.
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    • 1.Aristotle's De Anima locates intellection in the soul's own active intellect, requiring no external divine illumination to actualize concepts.
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    • 2.If the divine intellect were necessary for each act of intellection, human cognitive errors and ignorance would implicate God in epistemic failure.
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    • 1.Just as the sun supplies light to the eye, the divine intellect is the source of illumination for the human intellect
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    • 2.The eye is illumined by means of light, establishing a relationship between the eye, the object seen, and the intervening space
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