Sentence examples for upon the intellect from inspiring English sources

If you'll allow me to butcher Susan Sontag, the act of booing is too often little more than the revenge of the audience upon the intellect.

This was the time at which the distinction was first insisted upon between the "intellect" and a faculty called ingegno, ingenium, "wit" or "genius," as especially inventive of art; and, corresponding to this, a faculty of judgment, which was not a ratiocination or logical judgment, because it judged "without discourse" or "without concepts," and came to be called "taste".

This suggests a two-stage process: first the functioning of the sense faculty results in "mere seeing" of the object (non-conceptualized awareness) and, later this mere seeing is acted upon by the intellect or mind and results in a conceptual identification of the object.

"Interpretation," as Susan Sontag memorably wrote "is the revenge of the intellect upon art".

Thus Susan Sontag disclaimed interpretation as "the revenge of the intellect upon art".

To listen to one other interviewee, Juli Kearns, talk about an "impossible window" in the Overlook ("It's like a character in itself, it takes over"), you are reminded (again!) of Susan Sontag's declaration that "interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art".

Thus, the conceptual categories exist only potentially, but not actually, in extra-mental reality; it is possible for the intellect, upon acquaintance with one of the actual categories in extra-mental reality, to form the concept of the corresponding conceptual category (on Auriol's ideas on the category most broadly, see Amerini 2014).

Thus it is with regard to Dietrich's theory of the agent intellect; it need not always and everywhere be completely operative upon the possible intellect.

Lax also espoused the worth of Euclid's Elements in the work, which he considered to reflect "the highest honour upon the human intellect".

Beliefs play a role in our deliberations over what to do; thus the constraints placed upon beliefs in turn constrain the intellect in its activities.

Similarly, he treats the human soul as the perishable form imposed upon the bodily elements to constitute a living human being, and argues that the intellect develops from an embodied intellect focused upon the material world to a state that eventually contains forms that are not embodied.