But in contrast to Democritus, who had followed the deductive route of the intellect, considering the knowledge of the senses to be spurious, Epicurus, following an inductive route, assigned truth to sensation and reduced the intellect to it.
Even on the rare occasion when you actually did know a thing or two, the IQ -depleting gaze of some inscrutable attendings reduced your intellect to that of a salamander who had had a difficult birth.
A fall in late 2010 severely reduced his mobility, but his intellect and willpower remained unvanquished, as did his social and cultural life, thanks to Marlene's efforts, love – and cooking.
Because the possible intellect is at times only in potency with respect to an intelligible object, and because nothing can reduce itself from potency to act, it must be reduced to the act of understanding by something else.
It does not, in any sense, reduce me as an intellect.
In theory using biomedical research to develop scientific capacity in Africa could significantly reduce the migration of intellect from low- to high-income countries.
Urbanites' work here is reduced to an oral exercise, an assertion which implicitly rejects any connection between interactive labor and intellect.
Nonetheless, his belief in a human soul leads him to insist that human intellect, free will and foresight (unlike the mental capacities of any other animal) cannot 'be entirely reduced to the material' (p. 173).
So, too, in the order of consideration although not in the order of reality, the agent intellect separates or frees the quiddity presented in a phantasm from its individuating conditions and thereby reduces it from being potentially intelligible to being actually intelligible and capable of moving the possible intellect to understand.
Intellect notes that internet healthcare services could save money by reducing the number of surgery walk-ins and home visits as well as helping to detect problems at an earlier stage.
