Sentence examples for single intellect from inspiring English sources

Such cases illustrate how the various medieval disputes over whether human beings might share a single intellect — so absurd on their face — are in fact simply alternative formulations of the dispute over divine illumination.

In order to defend the Christian dogma of personal immortality, Philoponus broke with the common Aristotelian and Stoic interpretation of a single universal mind operative in all people and taught that each person possesses an individual intellect.

Against Avicenna's determinism, he held that God "voluntarily" created the world, and he opposed those proponents of Aristotelianism who taught that man's conceptual powers are one with the single, universal intellect.

Furthermore, the Averroist doctrine of one single "possible intellect" for the whole of humankind (another theory widely discussed in universities) challenged the Christian belief in individual immortality.

"Unlike the hydra with its single controlling intellect, the agencies are often divided, competitive, and poorly tasked," the report said.

Keith singles out intellect as a big factor.

Hence both substance and accident are included under this analogous notion of being and this single object of the intellect (PB 2.135 36; Wippel, 1981, 19 24).

More than his patriotic heroism, though, it was his insouciant intellect that singled him out.

The "previous condition of the intellect, and not the single fact, is really the main and peculiar cause of the success.

For a perfect knowledge of something it is sufficient that our intellect is able to single out the object in question against others by means of a proper concept.

As always, Rosalind comes across as a woman of antic intellect, able to spin a single metaphor into a giddy game.