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Aristotle on the matter of mind 237
changelessness of the soul and the incorporeality of the intellect; for it
seems that the variety of psychic performances, including the intellec-
tual ones, which the animal kingdom displays makes Aristotle acknowl-
edge that there is a material aspect to thinking as well, which he, in the
‘canonical’ theory ofnousinDe an. 3. 4 – 8 , is conspicuously reluctant to
recognise.