Sentence examples for certain intellect from inspiring English sources

"If somebody puts a turnip on your head it gives an impression to people of a certain intellect that they can treat you like anything.

"They expect a certain style from their presidential nominee, a certain intellect and a kind of measure in serious discussion of policy".

"From a certain peculiarity of intellect and fortune, he was never in advance of his time," Bagehot wrote.

In sum, whether consciousness and certain aspects of intellect have a partly immaterial basis is unknown, and may be unknowable (McGinn [1999]).

First, knowledge of first principles is certain because the intellect has only to form such judgments to see that they are true.

According to Autrecourt, the intellect is certain of everything that is evident to it in the final analysis.

He could, however, point out that, whereas the human intellect recognizes that certain actions for instance, murder or theft are evil, it cannot by itself discover the best definition of what constitutes a particular transgression; nor can it, on its own, determine an appropriate punishment.

Darwin concluded that intellect would have certain advantages in social competition, and the major reason for a species difference in intellect is how much brainpower the body is able to afford.

But if moral properties are causally impotent, then causal interaction could not explain why certain things seem to the intellect to be true.

In his Letter to Bernard, Autrecourt takes on Bernard of Arezzo, who had argued that the intellect is neither certain of the existence of those things of which it has a clear intuitive cognition, nor of its own acts.

To show this he first appeals to the Principle of Hierarchy mentioned above: because the lower faculties, the senses, can have intuitive cognition, therefore it is certain that the higher faculty, intellect, can have intuitive cognition, since it is more noble than the abstractive cognition that we know the intellect does have.