Sentence examples for thinking intellect from inspiring English sources

Avicenna distinguishes four different states of the human intellect, which are not different faculties of the soul, but different phases of intellection: three potential intellects, called material, in habitu, in effectu, and one actually thinking intellect, the "acquired intellect" (al-'aql al-mustafâd, intellectus adeptus).

And in this thinking, Intellect 'attains' the One in the only way it possibly can.

I believe that chess represents the epitome of strategic thinking, intellect, and mathematical beauty.

What is more, in Burley's new way of thinking, the intellect does know the universal only by abstraction from singulars; but abstraction always proceeds from what is already known to what is not yet known; therefore, singulars are known by us before universals (cf. fol. 11va).

Presumably, Aristotle is thinking of the intellect.

The greater the number of intelligibles deposited by the intellect in act in the "acquired intellect" (al-'aql al-mustafâd), the more that intellect thinks itself in thinking them.

"The Little Flower of East Orange," Guirgis's fifth full-length play, contains another hallmark of his work: thinking female characters, whose intellect is sometimes at odds with their intuition.

'Cognitive identity' then means that when Intellect is thinking, it is thinking itself.

Once it grasps a form and is actually thinking, it becomes "actual intellect".

He wrote: "I have no very convincing arguments of a positive nature to support my views". Instead, he turned the tables on those who might be sceptical about the idea of machines thinking, unleashing his formidable intellect on a range of possible objections, from religion to consciousness.

In Sigwart's case, Husserl criticizes, amongst other things, the view according to which it would be wrong to assume that a judgment could be true even if no intellect were ever thinking this judgment.