Sentence examples for intellect that in from inspiring English sources

Menn prefers translating nous as "Reason" or "Intelligence," objecting to such translations as "Mind" (or "Intellect") that in his view wrongly substantivize nous.

While not here mentioned explicitly, it is indeed the active intellect that, in the context of Maimonides' Neoplatonized Aristotelian context, is the cosmic source of the "intellectual overflow" under discussion in this passage.

In the Aristotelian scheme against which Descartes is moving, all knowledge arises from the senses, in accordance with the slogan "There is nothing in the intellect that was not previously in the senses" (7:75, 267).

The intellect that is perfected in the context of the given materiality in which it appears the human being in the world is the end, the goal of human life.

Thus, Locke subscribes to a version of the empiricist axiom that there is nothing in the intellect that was not previously in the senses — where the senses are broadened to include reflection.

He does say, however, that man is not fully joined to his intellect, an intellect that is always in act and resplendent with the universe of beings.

He is a kindly man with a sinewy intellect that often expresses itself in convoluted speech.

Superintelligence is any intellect that outperforms human intellect in every field, and Nick Bostrom thinks its most likely form will be a machine -- artificial intelligence.

Though Crosland was celebrated for the towering intellect that got him a first in PPE at Oxford in 12 months, and though the sexual attraction was obvious to all who knew them, he also regarded Susan as his intellectual peer.

"This is someone with an incredibly far-ranging and impressive intellect that could have been applied in a million ways," said Dobson.

Such a feat was accomplished by an extraordinary combination of imagination and intellect: an imagination that allowed him to soar into the future matched with an intellect that allowed him to roam in the past and present, searching for explanations of anything and everything.