Sentence examples for pure intellect from inspiring English sources

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

James's pure intellect outstrips Lachlan at the same age".

It's a bold move, staking everything on pure intellect, but it is also extremely risky.

doesn't measure pure intellect — we're not certain exactly what it does measure — differences do matter, and a higher I. Q

A spectrum of skill runs from games of pure luck, such as dice or the Lotto, to games of pure intellect, such as chess.

The result was a critique of metaphysics, the value of which lay not in science but in a realm of being accessible only to the pure intellect.

We are not pure intellects, sent from a remote intellectual sphere to exploit and colonise the planet.

The world of nature, the world of things in space and time, is, as Leibniz put it, a "well-founded phenomenon"; it is what all men must judge to be there, given that they are not pure intellects but necessarily remain to some extent prisoners of their senses.

These are the most positive intimations in Origen's extant works of a doctrine freely ascribed to him by his ancient critics, according to which all rational beings were once pure intellects in the presence of God, and would have remained so for ever had they not fallen away through koros or satiety.

"The best marketer in the company in terms of pure marketing intellect was Karen Francis".

One major Western tradition maintains that pleasure requires an act of the will (Augustine, CD, XIV,6), but another that at its best it supervenes on the pure activity of the intellect alone (Aristotle, NE X,vii).