Aristotle argued that the intellect is immaterial because if it were material, it would be limited to receiving specific types of forms, similar to how physical organs like the eye or ear are limited to specific sensory inputs.

Authors

• Person: Howard Robinson Organization: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition)

Sources

• Dualism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Winter 2016 Edition) plato.stanford.edu Howard Robinson · Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy via serper

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• Aristotle entity
• sensory input concept
• form concept
• intellect concept