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The process of thinking (especially thinking carefully)
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intellection
Word definitions for intellection in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought" [syn: thinking , thought , cerebration , mentation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intellection \In`tel*lec"tion\, n. [L. intellectio synecdoche: cf. F. intellection.] A mental act or process; especially: The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. --Bentley. A creation of the mind itself. --Hickok.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context uncountable English) The mental activity or process of grasping with the intellect; apprehension by the mind; understanding. 2 (context countable English) A particular act of grasping by means of the intellect. 3 (context countable English) ...
Usage examples of intellection.
If on the other hand by this actualization it is meant that he is Act and Intellection, then as being Intellection he does not exercise it, just as movement is not itself in motion.
Intellectual-Principle has to give, an actuality whose advantage over Intellection is no adventitious superiority.
These are very near to the un-needing, to that which has no need of Knowing, they have abundance and intellection authentically, as being the first to possess.
Clearly, as authentic Intellection, it has authentic Intellection of the authentically existent, and establishes their existence.
Beau Brachman had sat listening to their discussion with a faint smile of amusement, as though knowing better, keeping quiet, while Pierce asked questions and Val put forth notions, laughing at her own unhandiness with logical intellection.
What else is necessary, Dialectic puts together for itself, combining and dividing, until it has reached perfect Intellection.
Now a being rooted in unchanging identity cannot entertain memory, since it has not and never had a state differing from any previous state, or any new intellection following upon a former one, so as to be aware of contrast between a present perception and one remembered from before.
If they treat God as they do the Intellectual-Principle--as later, engendered and deriving intellection from without--soul and intellect and God may prove to have no existence: this would follow if a potentiality could not come to existence, or does not become actual, unless the corresponding actuality exists.
The EC chart is a matrix with intellection on one side and emotion on the other, flanked by self and fles scales.
I place intellection and emotion as definition opposites on one axis, and self and fles as impindor drives on the other axis.
Being: and if it study itself this can mean only that ignorance inheres in it and that it is of its own nature lacking and to be made perfect by Intellection.
For, what he sees is an Intellectual-Principle looking on nothing of sense, nothing of this mortality, but by its own eternity having intellection of the eternal: he will see all things in this Intellectual substance, himself having become an Intellectual Kosmos and all lightsome, illuminated by the truth streaming from The Good, which radiates truth upon all that stands within that realm of the divine.
We must reflect that, since the many forms of lives are movements--and so with the intellections--they cannot be identical: there must be different lives, distinct intellections, degrees of lightsomeness and clarity: there must be firsts, seconds, thirds, determined by nearness to the Firsts.
And even if this be rejected, it must still be admitted that there do exist intellections of intellectual objects and perceptions of objects not possessing magnitude: how, we may then ask, can a thing of magnitude know a thing that has no magnitude, or how can the partless be known by means of what has parts?
Intellection: for that primal principle is no potentiality and cannot be an agent distinct from its act and thus, once more, possessing its essential being as a mere potentiality.