And what of the three other girls with whom Ms. Ingram alternates in the role of a prodigious intellect who not only reads Dostoevsky but can also speak Russian?
The intellect so understood is not only the cause of human thought; it is also the cause of the existence of everything that there is in the universe.
In one of the most intriguing and hotly debated passages of ancient philosophy, De anima Book 3, chapter 5, Aristotle introduces the notion of a kind of intellect that he describes as productive and active, and this kind of intellect, according to him, is not only separable from the body but is "alone immortal and eternal".
Humans at their highest are intellects, or souls perfectly conformed to Intellect; they become aware of their intellectual nature when, passing not only beyond sense perception but beyond the discursive reasoning characteristic of the life of Soul, they immediately grasp eternal realities.
The motto of the school hasn't changed since it was founded more than 150 years ago – "not only the intellect, but also the character".
In her writing she used real animals she had encountered to show that pets have not only an intellect, but also a desire to achieve and be challenged and a capacity for moral understanding.
Like investment banking in New York, politics in London not only made intellect a prerequisite for advancement but also put demands on a young person's stamina and dedication that in previous generations would have been thought sadistic or demeaning.
He came to appreciate not only her intellect and good looks but also her strength and independence — qualities, he said, that allow him to fully concentrate on his missions.
One of the documents is Leibniz's 1696 letter to Gabriel Wagner which contains the famous definition of logic or the art of reasoning as the art to use the intellect (Verstand), i.e., not only to evaluate what is imagined, but also to discover (invent) what is hidden.
