intellection
1
9.6
- noun
- /ˌɪntəˈlɛkʃən/
- Specialized
:
intelección
- Through careful intellection, she was able to solve the difficult problem that had puzzled her for days.
And this, he says, shows us one of the key differences between imagination and intellection.
- And this, he says, shows us one of the key differences between imagination and intellection.
- Why does thoughts, pure thought, intellection, take priority over feeling and volition, affectivity, broadly speaking?
- I don't believe that wetware biology, such as we are, has an exclusive patent on an on intellection consciousness.
Examples
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The teacher encouraged intellection among her students, guiding them to think critically about complex topics.
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His philosophical essays reflect deep intellection about the nature of existence and human experience.
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And those are the lower faculty of imagination and the higher faculty of what he calls here pure intellection or conception.
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In Sebald's work, the past generally appears by means of detached intellection rather than emotional investment.
Academic text (2016) -
Moving from sensation to immaterial intellection, however, requires a real act of abstraction.
Academic text (1996) -
Through intellection, the healer engages reality directly and witnesses the very nature of things.
Blog text (3) -
Thought, real human thought, is the thought of moral beings, beings conscious that the act of intellection is itself an ethical enterprise, one for which they are accountable before the Divine Judge.
Academic text (2005) -
If a few souls somehow break free of their chains, journey to the cave's opening, and stand in the full light of the sun, they will discover the exhilarating splendors of pure intellection.
Academic text (2001) -
Vision, while extraordinarily important in giving permanence to sound, allowing distancing and increasing objectivity, is secondary to sound in the developmental process of human intellection.
Academic text (1995) -
The idea of high culture is dependent upon a set of cultural binaries: it is disinterested, refined, abstracted, a realm of intellection as opposed to bodily needs.
Fiction book (1994)
Synonyms
∞
1.4
The process of thinking or an idea that comes from thinking
872
1.8
Careful use of your mind to consider something
43
3.7
Mental steps used to consider and solve a problem
2
3.8
Careful, long attention to an idea before deciding
1
9.1
A process of thinking carefully about something
1
9.1
A careful, serious kind of thinking about something
A mental action used to understand or solve something
How Thoughtful
5
7.4
- Specialized
1
9.6
25
4.8
119
3.7
872
1.8
∞
1.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intellection comes from the Latin verb intellegere, which means 'to understand' and is the same root as the familiar words intellect and intelligent. A helpful image is the mind 'picking out' the important ideas, so intellection means careful thinking and understanding.