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    Challenges→Man is universal because man is understood universally by the intellect, not because man exists universally in reality.

    The intellect understands man universally by setting aside all individuating conditions.

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    … we must not posit a universal man because he exists universally. Rather, [man] is universal because it is understood universally, when [the intellect] sets aside all the individuating conditions. (In Isag.: q.5)[11]

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