THE IMMATERIALITY OF HUMAN INTELLECT
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https://doi.org/10.15691/0718-5448Vol2Iss2a51Keywords:
Intellect, incorporeal, truth, understanding, principle of non- contradiction, intellectual memory, free willAbstract
This paper presents a series of arguments to prove that the human intellect, as a power of the human soul, is incorporeal. Its framework is Aristotelian and so the reasoning avoids the problems inherent to dualism and materialism.References
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