NOT ALL EARTHLY ENTITIES HAVE CORRESPONDING IDEAS.

In conclusion, the accidental composites in which Intelligence does not

share and which are formed by a fortuitous complex of sense-objects,

have no ideas corresponding to them in the intelligible world. Things

that proceed from decay are produced only because the Soul is unable to

produce anything better in this case; otherwise she would have rather

produced some object more agreeing with nature; she therefore produces

what she can.

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