Sentence examples for intellect operates from inspiring English sources

Pure intellect operates independently of the brain or body; imagination and sense perception depend upon the body for their operation (as does corporeal memory).

He concludes, therefore, that the agent intellect operates on the phantasm simply by removing or separating or isolating one factor present therein the quiddity of the thing, from another its individuating characteristics.

At the outset of the chapter on wisdom Śāntideva says that the ultimate truth is of a reality that is not within range of the intellect; the intellect operates only at the level of conventional truth.

Sometimes it seems as if he is favoring a quasi-Humean view according to which the intellect operates in the service of some anonymous affective and emotional drives in such a way that it just provides a set of necessary means to consciously realize what drives force us to do.

And his penetrating and lucid intellect operated as a kind of acid bath for received wisdom.

And thematically these peculiarities work as the outward manifestations of a jittery, creative, un-self-conscious intellect operating under the strain of relentless emergency.

By contrast, Descartes affirmed that the truths of mathematics and metaphysics are grasped by the intellect operating independently of the senses and without need for assistance from the faculty of imagination.

This Holmes fascinates us not as a complex and conflicted man, but as a soulless intellect that operates primarily as a symptom of our mechanized way of life.

It makes remarkable progress in who knows how many fields, but I've got a sense that one's temperament masquerades as one's intellect most of the time, or operates one's intellect, and I don't exclude myself from that.

It is "pure" in the sense that the subject's intellect is not operating in the service of the will to life during aesthetic experience, though this subject is still embodied for without embodiment, without the senses, a subject would not perceive at all (WWR I, 198).

There is no doubt he has great intellect, being able to operate with some of the best players in the world and even to enhance them but also getting the best out of the group when he does not have the best players to work with.