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    It is not the case that 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.Zabarella's locus-of-activity framework may represent a legitimate alternative interpretation of Aristotle, not necessarily a confused conflation of distinct faculties.
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    • 2.The abstraction/reception distinction itself remains contested among medieval and Renaissance Aristotelians, making rigid adherence to Themistius questionable.
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    • 3.Zabarella's approach might better explain how the possible intellect actualizes intelligibles without positing an unnecessarily separate active principle.
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    • 1.Themistius explicitly distinguishes abstraction (the active intellect's function) from reception (the possible intellect's passive role) in his commentaries.
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    • 2.Conflating these faculties obscures how intelligibles transition from potential to actual, a process requiring two distinct functional capacities.
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    • 3.The Peripatetic tradition maintains this distinction to preserve the possible intellect's passivity and explain intellectual development coherently.
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