Sentence examples for receptive intellect from inspiring English sources
Those species are actualized in the possible or receptive intellect, whose function is to receive and then store the intelligible species provided by the active intellect.
William is particularly concerned, however, that his account of the intellect's generation of intelligible forms will require a division of the intellect into active and passive parts the very distinction between an agent and material or receptive intellect he has devoted so much energy to attacking.
For Plutarch soul is essentially non-rational and yet receptive of reason that stems from the intellect (De virtute morali 441F).
The soul begins as receptive potentially, then acquires the habit of learning and intellecting until this is perfected; then it is an acquired intellect properly trained.
He attacks as inappropriate the analogies with light or the sun, and argues that the theory of the agent and material intellects is incompatible with the simplicity of the soul, as it posits these intellects as two distinct parts of the soul, one active and one receptive.
Hate reason and intellect.
The man represents intellect.
