passive intellect

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$optical illusion: refraction of light$
In epistemology: Aristotle
The first is the passive intellect, the second the active intellect, of which Aristotle speaks tersely. “Intellect in this sense is separable, impassible, unmixed, since it is in its essential nature activity.…When intellect is set free from its present conditions, it appears as just what it is and nothing…
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