Sentence examples for intellect understands from inspiring English sources
He first understands what is true and good, and then he wills that certain things should attain because his intellect understands the truth and goodness of them (and his benevolence guides his choice).
Assiduously avoiding stereotypical put-downs about Reagan's intellect, Wilentz understands that a deep-seated fear of Armageddon wisely guided many presidential decisions during the 1980s.
Scotus holds (just as Aquinas had held) that the human intellect never understands anything without turning towards phantasms (Lectura 2, d. 3, pars 2, q. 1, n. 255).
Although the active intellect so understood is a human intellect, it is emphatically not conceived of as a personal intellect.
One of the functions of the agent intellect is to illuminate phantasms so that they can move the possible intellect to understand.
He was an outstanding intellect, who understood respiratory physiology better than anyone, as well as a skilled physician.
He used his intellect to understand organisations and to help managers to make them better places to work and greater forces for good.
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.
So, too, in the order of consideration although not in the order of reality, the agent intellect separates or frees the quiddity presented in a phantasm from its individuating conditions and thereby reduces it from being potentially intelligible to being actually intelligible and capable of moving the possible intellect to understand.
