Though definitions vary, the term generally describes people for whom sexual attraction is based on intellect, and not necessarily on looks.
Any hint of an I'm-better-than-you sentiment, especially if that sense of superiority is based on intellect or fancy speech or having attended an Ivy League school, can go over very badly in America today, where "elite" has gone from being a word of admirationto one of insult.
Knowledge is based on forgetting.
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His theory of intellectual knowledge is based on the agent intellect's ability to abstract potentially intelligible content from phantasms (images) produced by the imagination, an internal sense.
Which, after all, was based on the hard ground of intellect.
For the translocation of signification in the proper sense from the word to the intellect is based on the presupposition that, whatever Augustine may have said, mental concepts are signs themselves.
The title character, with his keen intellect, is based on Balzac's conception of himself: a visionary genius who fails to achieve his true potential because of less talented individuals with more social power.
Agreeing to disagree is where you understand what the other person thinks but you believe their ridiculous opinion is based on their flawed character, their weak intellect and their deep-seated selfishness.
It was based on the notion of developing the intellect for substantial expression and it helped to fuel "big thinking" – the food of innovation.
His proof is based on the premise that the human intellect passes from potentiality into actuality, which can only be due to an agent that possesses the end of motion (that is, knowledge) in actuality.
