Sentence examples for intellect it would from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, if there were an agent intellect distinct from the possible intellect, it would be a natural power of the soul and so would be required for the cognition of all intelligibles, not just a certain class of them.

Like most abolitionists, Washington had been opposed tocolonization, but after researching other resettlement options, he stated, in 1851 in The New-York Daily Tribune, that if African-Americans were "ever [to] find a home on earth for the development of their manhood and intellect it [would] first be in Liberia or some other part of Africa".

If one day we upload our consciousnesses into the cloud and exist only as incorporeal intellects, then it would indeed be meaningless to distinguish between a person next to us and a person ten thousand miles away.

"He was a remarkable intellectual with the courage to allow that intellect to take him wherever it would go," said Mr. Kerrey, now president of New School University.

Equality is not the opposite of intellect; it depends on intellect for its true realization.

Cox would much rather overestimate than underestimate his audience's intellect – "I'd rather treat them with respect" – but thinks the key is not to baffle viewers for too long.

If the intellect were unable to know singulars, it would be impossible for it to distinguish what is universal from what is singular.

What is more, were the material intellect unable to know the singular, it would be impossible for us to distinguish what is individual from what is universal.

(In Rorty 1967, 305) {§6.8} alas! intellect must first destroy the object of Inner Sense if it would make it its own.

Although the active intellect so understood is a human intellect, it is emphatically not conceived of as a personal intellect.

So it would seem that the intellect cannot actually break from the will, but if this is so, then aesthetic experience would not be possible.