This point may be true however, they, being the eyes, do so by analytically receiving the forms, as matterless things and not as matter. Even receiving objects in this way implies that they only get the shapes of colors. They are still bodily structures; they are still subject to being affected by other forms such as cold or softness in a material way. To declare that the mind obtains all forms is to say that the mind is not materially affected at all, and therefore is not adulterated, that is, it is not corporeal at all but completely separate from everything. As long as one can still say that the eye or any other sensitive organ of the body experiences the analytical reception of form, one is still led to the deduction that the intellect does not have a material state since it knows
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