PhoDabi - Is the Agent Intellect a Guarantor?

In order to have absolute certitude then you have to stipulate that there can't be any time at which P is not true and that P holds essentially and not accidentally. And so that's going to be only necessary universal truths. But by adding that as a further condition for Robbie says so up to this point you can have a kind of attenuated or relative maybe we might might say non absolute certitude about temporal contingent propositions. So I think on my reading he simply sees the agent intellect as a necessary mechanism for explaining how we get abstract universals. It mostly is a metaphor to explain how natural physical things in the sensible world can be illuminated so that we can abstract them.