Zabarella also had to face the question, how the intellect in fact made this mental consideration.
My efforts to convince Steak Tzar Tzar that they are up against a huge obstacles were failing, rapidly, as my intellect soaked in the facts.
Concerning any thing, our intellect first grasps (by nature) the fact of its being an entity and then the fact of its being that determined entity, even though chronologically the opposite seems true.
One would have to say that the will's infallibly choosing in accordance with the deliverances of the intellect is a fact whose truth is independent of God's will, while also saying that the deliverances of the intellect provide a sufficient reason for the will's choice.
Instead, the distinction depends on the fact that the intellect uses different concepts to indicate the being of a thing, on the one hand, and that which a thing is, on the other.
In short, against Chatton, Wodeham defends an Ockham-like position, suggesting that the source of error is not the intuitive cognition of something not actually there, but the fact that the intellect chooses to make a judgment about the existence of something other than what was intuited.
In general, the will, or "freedom of choice," consists "in our ability to do or not do something (that is, to affirm or deny, to pursue or avoid); or rather, it consists simply in the fact that when the intellect puts something forward for affirmation or denial or for pursuit or avoidance, our inclinations are such that we do not feel we are determined by any external force" (AT VII 57/CSM II 40).
Although Burley seems to accept the existence of a separate material intellect, unique to the whole human species, he emphasizes the fact that without the contribution of elementary thought, which provides us with the phantasm, the material intellect cannot be united to the active intellect in knowing.
Soul explains, as unchangeable Intellect could not, the deficiency that is implicit in the fact of desiring.
Due to its superiority and to the fact that it is no being, the intellect is resplendent with the universe of beings.
