Sentence examples for distinct faculties from inspiring English sources
He appears to distinguish two distinct faculties of human knowledge, the sensory and the intellectual, each of which grasps the corresponding part of reality (Plat. Quest. 1002D-E).
Based on partly mis-translated texts by Aristotle (Hansberger 2011), Avicenna developed a psychology that assumes the existence of several distinct faculties of the soul.
(A52/B56) For Maimon, Kant's cognitive dualism — which begins with distinct faculties of cognition — fails to explain how the various elements can come together in a way that makes experience possible.
Shakespeare's characters were so distinctive that it is as if each were expressed by a distinct "faculty" of his mind; and, in effect, these faculties could be considered as showing "excessive sociability", notable for "how they gossiped and compared notes together".
In this case, two distinct faculty groups were tarred with elitism — those who wanted to incorporate black and women's studies into the core curriculum, and those who thought that blacks and women had produced nothing worthy of study.
Sometimes the issues surrounding intuitions are framed in terms of whether there is a distinct faculty of intuition.
Chomsky and others (e.g., Chomsky 1988:46-7; Pinker 1994:237-8) have pointed to the existence of 'linguistic universals' as supporting the idea that language is the product of a distinct faculty of mind.
Philolaus thus recognizes four distinct psychic faculties.
Many modern philosophers have at this point felt the need to invoke imagination, either as a distinct mental "faculty" (Kant) or as a distinctive mental operation by virtue of which thought and experience may be united.
Indeed, there is little evidence that he thought the moral sense is a distinct psychological faculty in the way that, for instance, Hutcheson did.
So the proposal to change the award of degree awarding powers, assessing the track record of faculty distinct from their institution, is logical and desirable.
