Sentence examples for understanding in intellect from inspiring English sources

In 75.2 he proved that the human soul is a subsistent because it has an activity that pertains to it without the use of a corporeal organ, namely, the activity of understanding in intellect.

At the end he deals with the limits of our senses and of the human intellect in understanding the First Cause and the others separate beings: our intellect is weak in understanding concepts such as movement, time, matter, privation, and possibility, and it can attain them only through analogies and long meditation.

Since, in Burley's view, both the active intellect and the intellect in habitu are not strictly speaking faculties of the soul, but the primary cause of understanding and a state of the soul, respectively, it is necessary for him to offer two distinct accounts depending on whether it is the elementary thought or the material intellect which is in question.

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.

Man is not "fully joined" to his intellect in the sense that the intellect is not his form.

According to 'Abd al-Latif God precedes the intellect in ruling things: he orders the intellect to govern.

Far from grounding intellect in sensation, al-Kindi argues in On the Intellect that the human intellect has a parallel, but separate, function to human sense-perception.

The senses differ from the intellect in that they have physical organs; the intellect is immaterial.

Since the intellect is now totally assimilated to the order of things Albert calls the intellect in its final stage of development the "assimilated intellect" (intellectus assimilativus).

In addition to this language of overflow, Maimonides speaks of the moment of perfected human contact with active intellect in terms of a "conjunction" (ittiṣāl) between the human intellect and active intellect.

This form will reside in the final type of intellect, the "first intellect," which is al-Kindi's version of the infamous "maker intellect" in Aristotle's De Anima 3.5.