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    The intellect is the likeness of the universe of beings n... — Carmelics
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    The intellect is the likeness of the universe of beings not by its act of knowing, but because the intellect is none of the beings it knows.

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    • 1.If the intellect were any one particular being, it could only know that being, just as an eye of a particular color can only see that color.
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    • 2.The eye must be colorless to see every color; likewise, the intellect must be none of the beings it knows in order to know all beings.
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    • 3.The intellect is truly the universe of beings in the conceptional order, not the real order.
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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphism holds that the intellect actualizes knowledge by receiving forms, meaning knowing is constitutive of the intellect's being, not merely incidental to it.
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    • 2.If the intellect's ontological status as 'likeness of beings' derives from its receptive structure rather than its acts, Dietrich conflates the capacity for knowing with the privation of being.
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    • 3.A mirror's likeness of objects depends on its reflective act; separating the mirror's nature from its reflecting collapses the structural analogy Dietrich relies upon.
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    • 1.Hegel's absolute idealism demonstrates that the knower and known are dialectically constituted through acts of cognition, making the intellect's universality a product of knowing, not a precondition of it.
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    • 2.Dietrich's claim presupposes a static, pre-relational intellect, but if selfhood and universality emerge through cognitive activity, the ontological priority he assigns to structural emptiness is inverted.
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    Intellects possess unique attributes according to Dietrich. We have already remarked on one of these: their likeness to God and to the universe of beings—a property shared by no other creatures. We have seen that intellect is like God in that it is what we have called semi-creative or conceptional. In what way, however, can intellect be the likeness of the universe of beings, and to such a degree that it becomes identified with it so that we can say that the intellect is the universe of beings i
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