Sentence examples for the function of the intellect from inspiring English sources

Furthermore, the Sāṃkhyakārikā states that the function of the senses with regard to the objects is "a mere seeing" (Sāṃkhyakārikā, 28b), and the function of the intellect, referred to as ascertainment, can be thought of as "identification" of the object as in "this is a cow", etc. (Sāṃkhyakārikā 5ab).

Since empirical consciousness is the function of the possible intellect according to Dietrich, and since in his Neoplatonic hierarchy the agent intellect being the cause of the possible intellect must be superior to it, it follows that empirical consciousness is due to the causal action of the agent intellect.

The most immediate consequences of the adoption of this view are (1) a new theory concerning the object of intellective knowledge, different from that presented in Book III of his De anima commentary; and (2) a new definition of the function of the active intellect in the process of knowledge.

One of the functions of the agent intellect is to illuminate phantasms so that they can move the possible intellect to understand.

Even so, Scotus is enough of an Aristotelian about the functioning of our intellect on this side of heaven to insist that even though our brute acquaintance with those acts is independent of phantasms, the descriptions under which we know those acts must be capable of being captured in a phantasm.

As in a toolbox, there are nooks and slots for the different functions of the intellect.

What we see in this passage above is the progression of the soul-intellect through the five stages of the perfection of the intellect described in Avicenna.

Finally, the universal is the object of the intellect by exclusion insofar as the intellect is the only faculty capable of knowing it.

The First Cause, which is the Pure Good, pours all that is good into the intellect and into all that which exists through the mediation of the intellect.

Lefèvre did argue for the unity of the intellect, explaining the active and passive intellects as "powers" (potentie) of the same faculty.

Critical to presential knowledge is the Porphyrian doctrine of the unity of the intellect, the intellecting subject and its intelligible object.