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Richard Taylor connected a philosopher’s conception of this faculty as “form for us” to their readings of Themistius. A thesis about this faculty is the first of thirteen doctrines condemned in Étienne Tempier’s (“ate-YEN tomp-YAYS”) 1270 edict. This faculty is said to operate via “union” rather than “conjunction” in a book titled for the Four Journeys of this faculty by Mulla Sadra. (10[2])This faculty (10[1])is split into an “agent” form and a “material” form, both of which are singular and universal, in a thinker’s “Long Commentary” on an Aristotle work. That Aristotle work, which distinguishes between “active” and “passive” types (10[1])of this (10[2])faculty, (10[1]-5[1])is On the Soul. Aquinas criticized the theory that this faculty is shared among all people, (10[1])propounded (-5[1])by (-5[1])a thinker he called “the Commentator.” For 10 points, Averroes (“uh-VARE-roh-eez”) believed (10[1])in the “unity” (10[3])of what faculty (10[1])of (-5[1])understanding? ■END■ (10[10]0[4])

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