independance

— Another reaſon may be the ſame which was alledged for the ſpirituality of the ſoule, namely independance in operation, and therefore conſequently in Being upon the body. And that Independance is manifeſt, Firſt, becauſe the acts of the ſoule are educ’d immediately in it ſelfe, without the Intercedence of any organ whereby ſenſitive faculties work.[…]And from the latter of thoſe two Principles, which I ſpake of, namely, that the quality of the Being may be gathered from the Nature of the Operation, Ariſtotle inferres the ſeparability and independance of the underſtanding on the Body, in the third de Anima afore-named:[…]