But in the second case, it is the universal that is the direct and appropriate object of the intellect, because the intentional representation (species or intentio) produced by the singular in the soul is not formed or 'taken in' by the material intellect, as the only species present in the material intellect is the universal.
In other passages, he seems to say that while the will does "infallibly" choose that which the intellect deems to be the best, the will nevertheless retains the power to resist the intellect because the intellect does not "cause" the will to choose as it does.
In making judgment calls like whether we should help another person or not, we don't just depend on our intellect because the intellect does not account for invisible factors.
While many coaches and general managers consider the Wonderlic particularly useful in evaluating quarterbacks and offensive linemen, positions that are believed to demand the greatest intellect because of the need to decipher complex defenses, the hope is that the new test, called the Player Assessment Tool, will give teams clearer insight into a broader range of players.
I've been expected to be the Wonder Woman of the Intellect because I'm intelligent with disabilities, not just because I'm an intelligent person.
I think that because of his intellect, because of his understanding of the game and, frankly, his skills, that he's going to be playing for a long time.
He explained that he never thought much of his own intellect because he was trying to understand the universe, and against that benchmark, he could only be humble.
If it were truly the case, he reasoned, that one needed to posit a distinct agent intellect because phantasms are only potentially intelligible, then, by the same token, one would have to posit an "agent sense", because sensibles "are only sensed in potency" (Quodl. I, q. 12, p. 164, 234).
The apparent contrast between these two theories is lessened when we recognize that for Henry God is the primum cognitum of our intellect, not because of the evidence, but because of the absolute indeterminacy of our concept of God.
It represents the cognitive identity of Intellect with Forms because the embodied believer is cognitively identical with a concept which itself represents or images Forms.
However, by denying this distinction, Wodeham must be willing to say that, strictly speaking, the "intellect senses" because it is the same intellectual soul that both senses and thinks.
