Sentence examples for Intellectual perception from inspiring English sources

For if some have no graces to charm the sense, yet even these, by disclosing to intellectual perception the artistic spirit that designed them, give immense pleasure to all who can trace links of causation, and are inclined to philosophy.

For as that colour is more suitable to the eye whose freshness and pleasantness stimulates and strengthens the sight, so a man ought to apply his intellectual perception to such objects as, with the sense of delight, are apt to call it forth, and allure it to its own proper good and advantage.

Clarity and distinctness of intellectual perception is the mark of truth.

He held that in fact the human intellect is able to perceive the nature of reality through a purely intellectual perception.

Hence, he sets up clear and distinct intellectual perception, independent of the senses, as the mark of truth (7 35, 62, 73).

As we have seen, in the Second and Third Meditations Descartes argues from the indubitability of the cogito reasoning to the trustworthiness of intellectual perception to the existence of a perfect being (God).

The vagabond's discovery of America has a resonance that frustrates long-held intellectual perceptions, often finding truths the intellectuals overlook.

There can be intellectual perceptions that do not depend on the brain.

Acts of pure intellect occur without the need for any accompanying brain processes; these are purely intellectual perceptions.

We have seen that his late doctrine of the efficacious idea involved the position that we have pure intellectual perceptions produced by God's intellectual idea of extension.

After 1695, he developed this suggestion by introducing the notion of "pure" or non-sensory intellectual perceptions that are produced by God's efficacious idea of extension.