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For Aristotle, there is an active reason which makes objects of thought.
A passive reason receives, combines and compares the objects of thought.
Active reason makes the world intelligible, and bestows on the materials of knowledge those ideas or categories which make them accessible to thought
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Aristotle | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy work of reason in thinking beings suggests the question: How can immaterial thought come to receive material things? It is only possible in virtue of some community between thought and things. <span>Aristotle recognizes an active reason which makes objects of thought. This is distinguished from passive reason which receives, combines and compares the objects of thought. Active reason makes the world intelligible, and bestows on the materials of knowledge those ideas or categories which make them accessible to thought. This is just as the sun communicates to material objects that light, without which color would be invisible, and sight would have no object. Hence reason is the constant support of an Summary
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