Sentence examples for intellect which is from inspiring English sources

"He had a charming personality and a very keen intellect, which is why Ambassador Holbrooke worked so hard to make him a part of our team," Ms. Bommer said of Mr. Singh.

He defended this doctrine in several works against the teaching of the Averroists (Latin followers of Averroës), who held that only one intellect, which is common to all human beings, remains after the death of man.

This union was conceived as the final stage in an intellectual ascent beginning with the impressions of sense objects that consist of form and matter and rising through a hierarchy of spiritual forms (i.e., forms containing less and less matter) to the Active Intellect, which is an emanation of the deity.

Further, Israeli adds a second Intellect which is a distinct hypostasis from First Intellect.

As mentioned above, essences depend on the divine intellect, which is their exemplary cause.

This is the first type of intellect, the potential intellect, which is merely an ability to grasp intellectual forms.

Avicenna distinguishes four different states of the human intellect, which are not different faculties of the soul, but different phases of intellection: three potential intellects, called material, in habitu, in effectu, and one actually thinking intellect, the "acquired intellect" (al-'aql al-mustafâd, intellectus adeptus).

In these musings, not published until the mid-20th century, Marx imagined information coming to be stored and shared in something called a "general intellect" – which was the mind of everybody on Earth connected by social knowledge, in which every upgrade benefits everybody.

By 1654, however, he was ready to publish an explicit denial: "Since … we are able to explain all its operations [i.e., those of the mind] by those faculties of the intellect, which were already explained, there is no need to add to them a pure intellect or anything similar as something that is distinct from them" (Regius 1654, 404).

This is the idea that the intellectual part of the human soul alone was immortal and that when surviving the death of the body it fully rejoined the Active Intellect, which was the source of all knowledge and ordered dynamic activity in the sublunar world.

The sensations that the spiritus experiences are the source of all cognition: memory, imagination, reason and the intellect itself, which is nothing but weakened and distilled sense.