Concept

Intellect

Overview

developed ability of the mind to asure to emerge with the correct conclusions about what is true or real, and about how to solve problems

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Now a thing understood may be in relation to an intellect either essentially or accidentally. It is related essentially to an intellect on which it depends as regards its essence; but accidentally to an intellect by which it is knowable; even as we may say that a house is related essentially to the intellect of…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
Names Intellect several times; states what Intellect is.
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This procedure, since it takes sides in a conflict of instinctive beliefs, stands in need of justification by proving the greater trustworthiness of the beliefs on one side than of those on the other. Bergson attempts this justification in two ways, first by explaining that intellect is a purely practical faculty to secure biological success, secondly by mentioning remarkable feats of instinct in animals and by…
Bertrand Russell, Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays
Names Intellect several times; states what Intellect is.
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In assuming an intellect in action you assume the comprehension of the thing comprehended. This is quite clear to all who have made themselves familiar with the figurative language common to this discipline.
Moses Maimonides, The guide for the perplexed
Names Intellect several times; states what Intellect is.
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