Sentence examples for intellect since from inspiring English sources

Rather than hold seminars as to why the Arabs and others hate us -- a meaningless waste of our intellect, since we're not about to change our ways -- let Mr. Friedman simply realize that we were attacked, and have been for decades, by the Arab world, and we are responding.

Duns Scotus (ca. 1266 1308) identifies the subject of metaphysics with the first object of the intellect; since "all things naturally knowable of God are transcendental," metaphysics includes a consideration of the divine.

In its search for perfection, man's intellect tends to imitate the model of this intellect, since it is that which makes man substantial in so far as he is man.

Moreover, it would only be the human character as constituted by emotions and desires that transmigrates and not human intellect, since according to Fr. 13 psychê does not include intellect (Huffman 2009).

These two principal avenues stem from some important ambiguities in the definition of "attribute": "By attribute I understand what the intellect perceives of substance as constituting its essence" (1D4).[12] The first term that is ambiguous is "intellect," since it can refer either to the finite intellect or the infinite one (cf. diagram in Section 1).

In De signis, Bacon provides the following definition: "For the sign is that which, offered to the senses or to the intellect, represents itself to that intellect, since not every sign is offered to the senses as the common definition of sign supposes.

In addition to Avicenna's philosophy having been readily incorporated into medieval European Scholastic thought, his synthesis of Neoplatonic and Aristotelian thought and his encompassing of all human knowledge of the time into well-organized accessible texts make him one of the greatest intellects since Aristotle.

It is pitted against democracy, since intellect is felt to be a form of distinction that defies egalitarianism".

Her keen intellect had long since crumbled and the diseased tension of her muscles had taken on a predatory coil.

This is a naive approach to fiction, granted, but a tough one, since intellect, cleverness, charm, wit, tact, even fact cannot conceal incredibility.

But his intentions for the work may be elucidated by a letter: "I despise no one, least of all because of his intellect or education, since it is no one's power not to become a blockhead or a criminal – because through the same conditions we would all probably become the same, and because the conditions lie outside of us".