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    It is not the case that 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.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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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