Sentence examples for intellectual perceptions from inspiring English sources

The vagabond's discovery of America has a resonance that frustrates long-held intellectual perceptions, often finding truths the intellectuals overlook.

There can be intellectual perceptions that do not depend on the brain.

Acts of pure intellect occur without the need for any accompanying brain processes; these are purely intellectual perceptions.

After 1695, he developed this suggestion by introducing the notion of "pure" or non-sensory intellectual perceptions that are produced by God's efficacious idea of extension.

We have seen that his late doctrine of the efficacious idea involved the position that we have pure intellectual perceptions produced by God's intellectual idea of extension.

He based this argument on clear and distinct intellectual perceptions of the essences of mind and matter, not on the fact that he could doubt the existence of one or the other.

Clarity and distinctness of intellectual perception is the mark of truth.

He held that in fact the human intellect is able to perceive the nature of reality through a purely intellectual perception.

Hence, he sets up clear and distinct intellectual perception, independent of the senses, as the mark of truth (7 35, 62, 73).

As we have seen, in the Second and Third Meditations Descartes argues from the indubitability of the cogito reasoning to the trustworthiness of intellectual perception to the existence of a perfect being (God).

In both sensory and intellectual perception, one can require a considerable degree of activity and acuity on the part of the perceiver, and in both cases one can treat failed perception as a function both of the extent to which the capacity is possessed by the perceiver and the perceiver's efforts to employ it.