What the intellect of each man required was already present in his body, whose dark knowledge had unimpeded access to the dials and levers of abstract reason.
Philosophy is an abstract, intellectual, and solitary activity, while moral decision-making is and should be concrete, driven by emotion as much as by the intellect, and shaped by our interactions with the people affected by our actions.
The disgraced Anglo-Canadian media baron revels in abstract battles of intellect – and in ermine-draped ceremony.
InCapital and Language Marazzi argues that the changes in financial markets and the transformation of labor into immaterial labor (that is, its reliance on abstract knowledge, general intellect, and social cooperation) are just two sides of the same coin.
Aquinas claims that knowledge is obtained when the active intellect abstracts a concept from an image received from the senses.
From the image of a dog, for example, the intellect abstracts the ideas of being alive, being capable of reproduction and movement, and whatever else might be essential to being a dog.
The active intellect abstracts the intelligible species from the sensitive species in the internal senses and places it in the potential intellect.
According to Thomas Aquinas' theory of knowledge, the agent intellect abstracts a thing's form or essential information from the image or representation of that thing.
Essence is particular in that it receives its subsistence in a given suppositum (concrete individual entity) from something-other-than-itself, while it is universal in that it is abstracted by the intellect from these singular supposita, in which it exists as one in many, in order to become predicable by many.
Readers live in a world of words, which we like to think of as a world of pure intellect and abstract thought.
