Sentence examples for on our intellect from inspiring English sources

We can no longer rely on our instinct to regulate body fat – we must now rely on our intellect.

Since the invention of agriculture and cities, however, natural selection on our intellect has effective stopped and mutations have accumulated in the critical "intelligence" genes.

In the future, our country will need to depend more on our intellect, our innovation, design and creative skills.

In making judgment calls like whether we should help another person or not, we don't just depend on our intellect because the intellect does not account for invisible factors.

Made under the supervision of leading theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, the film (bound to be a front runner in this year's Oscar race) launches a twin pronged attack on our emotions and on our intellects.

Furthermore, he was willing to admit the impossibility of our understanding — at least given the present limitations on our intellects — even quite ordinary and lawlike matters, e.g., the way in which the human soul and human body interact.

Even so, Scotus is enough of an Aristotelian about the functioning of our intellect on this side of heaven to insist that even though our brute acquaintance with those acts is independent of phantasms, the descriptions under which we know those acts must be capable of being captured in a phantasm.

The agent intellect or agent intelligence is taken to perform this function of impressing intelligible forms on our material intellect, which is so-called because like matter it is receptive of forms, albeit intelligible forms.

Here we see that Auriol's rejection of intuitive intellectual cognition in this life lies at the heart of a somewhat pessimistic view of the reach of human reason: we do not have direct intuitive knowledge of the world (much less of God), only indirect abstractive knowledge, and this places fairly strict limitations on just what our intellect can achieve unaided.

And it is this scale that we should be judged on: our personality, our intellect, our compassion and our capability rather than the voice we happened to be born into.

Contra Ehrenfels, the Graz school argued that Gestalten are actively produced by our intellect on the basis of the Gestalt switch phenomenon (see, among others, Smith 1994, 259 ff).