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    It is not the case that The possible intellect must be redefined as an active faculty

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    • 1.Aristotle's hylomorphic framework distinguishes the possible intellect as pure potentiality precisely because its receptivity is the condition for universal cognition.
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    • 2.Introducing active properties into the possible intellect collapses the functional distinction between it and the agent intellect, rendering the Aristotelian duplex intellect theory incoherent.
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    • 3.Aquinas and Averroes both maintain that the passivity of the possible intellect is not a deficiency but the metaphysical ground of its capacity to receive all intelligible forms without distortion.
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    • 1.The act of judgement can be adequately accounted for by the agent intellect's illuminating function without requiring the possible intellect itself to be reconceived as active.
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    • 2.Zabarella's conflation of the locus of activity with the possible intellect confuses the faculty that receives intelligibles with the faculty that abstracts them, a distinction preserved rigorously by Themistius and the Peripatetic tradition.
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    • 1.The human mind requires an active faculty to account for the act of judgement
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    • 2.The traditional conception of the possible intellect as purely passive does not account for the act of judgement
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