It turns out that Howells's is a tale of four cities: Columbus, Ohio, where he came of age, and which in his mind always represented virtue; Boston, which was his home during his salad days, and which represented intellect; Venice, which represented old Europe and sex.
In De signis, Bacon provides the following definition: "For the sign is that which, offered to the senses or to the intellect, represents itself to that intellect, since not every sign is offered to the senses as the common definition of sign supposes.
In discussing his use of hard edges or lines, Mr. Kunzman said: "I generally represent our intellect or our culture with the straight line because we've built civilizations based on the straight line.
Both must be controlled by the charioteer, which represents human reason and the intellect.
It is our "first perfection," while the Agent Intellect represents an ultimate perfection, or "final form" for us.[68] The Middle Commentary fashions the material intellect from a fusion of the views of Alexander of Aphrodisias and Themistius.
In the second case, an affective state such as feeling tired represents or images Intellect (in a derived way) owing to the cognitive component of that state which consists in the recognition of its own presence.
In Stello (1832) Vigny put together a series of consultations, or dialogues, between two symbolic figures: Doctor Noir (the Black Doctor), who represents Vigny's own intellect; and Stello, who represents the poet's desire for an active part in the public arena.
The intellect then represents this alternative to the will as the best course of action.
In other words, it is a state that produces desire that is in potency a state that recognizes the presence of the desire, a state which represents the state of Intellect.
Intuition and intellect represent two opposite directions of the work of consciousness: intuition goes in the very direction of life, intellect goes in the inverse direction, and thus finds itself naturally in accordance with the movement of matter.
