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    It is not the case that When man's intellect reaches its extreme perfection, it approaches the substance of the active intellect.

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    • 1.The active intellect, being immaterial and numerically one, is categorically different in kind from the individuated human intellect, not merely different in degree.
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    • 2.Approximation across a categorical ontological divide does not constitute genuine approach to a substance but only asymptotic functional resemblance.
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    • 3.Al-Ghazali demonstrated in Tahafut al-Falasifa that Neoplatonic emanationist intellect hierarchies conflate functional analogy with real ontological continuity.
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    • 1.Aristotle's own account in De Anima III.5 leaves the separate intellect's relation to individual cognizers deliberately ambiguous, undermining claims of a determinate 'approach' relation.
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    • 2.Thomas Aquinas argued that each human soul is itself an immaterial form, making union with a single external active intellect philosophically redundant and theologically incompatible with personal immortality.
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    • 1.Man's intellect seeks to imitate the active intellect as its model.
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    • 2.The active intellect is that which makes man substantial insofar as he is man.
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    • 3.Perfection for man consists in approximating the active intellect as far as possible.
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