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The reply is in the negative, because a faculty is
understood with reference to the act, and because of the
different acts there are different faculties which are
essentially ordered to these acts. But the essence is
ordered to being or existence, whereas the intellect is
ordered to intellection, which in the angel is distinct
from being since it presupposes being. In the same
intellective faculty and within the same specific and
adequate object there may be many acts of intellection,
either simultaneous and subordinated or successive.
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