 So, too, in the order of consideration although not in the order of reality, the agent intellect separates or frees the quiddity presented in a phantasm from its individuating conditions and thereby reduces it from being potentially intelligible to being actually intelligible and capable of moving the possible intellect to understand. This freeing or abstracting process takes place because of a kind of spiritual contact with the light of the agent intellect (Wippel, 1986). And, according to Godfrey the abstracted quiddity or intelligible object is really the efficient cause of the possible intellect’s actual cognition of that object, just as the object of a sense power is the efficient cause of that sense power’s actual perception of its object. In both cases this is again because nothing can reduce itself from potency to act (Quodlibet VIII, q. 2, PB 4.30–33; Quodlibet IX, q.19, PB 4.276–78; Quodlibet XIII, q. 3, PB 5.191–94, 200–202; Wippel, 1981,194–200; Côté, 2007, especially on Quodlibet XII, q. 1; Hartman, 2014).