Sentence examples for intellectual states from inspiring English sources

Moreover, without intuitive cognition I could never know about my own intellectual states.

Finally, I have indicated the view in the Entretiens that God produces our intellectual states through the union of our mind with His "intelligible extension".

This act coincides neither with intellectual states like uncertainty, doubt or conjecture, nor with volitional stances like the wish or the desire to know something.

Between emotions and the will, there is a hierarchy comparable to that of the class of intellectual states, with the difference being however that the phenomenal basis of the class of emotional acts is nothing other than sense-feelings (pleasure and displeasure).

(Brown, 1820/2010, pp. 145 146) In other words, unlike sensations, which were caused directly by external objects, emotions were caused by the mental "consideration" of perceived objects; and, unlike intellectual states, they were defined as noncognitive "vivid feelings" rather than as forms of thought.

The idea is to perfect the learning virtues in order to become, ultimately, a sage, which is equally a moral and intellectual state.

Indeed, perhaps universities are already failing to produce the intellectual state Newman saw as crucial and, in any case, the capacity for good judgement is not limited to university graduates.

Ignorance is the intellectual state of not knowing facts.

Unfortunately, given the current intellectual state of economic thinking, that won't happen.

This final intellectual state Aristotle characterizes as a kind of unmediated intellectual apprehension (nous) of first principles (APo. 100a10 b6).

Theory of Gerotranscendence is a theory which can assist the elderly in developing more mature and intellectual state of mind.