Word Finder - intellects

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The faculty of thinking, judging, abstract reasoning, and conceptual understanding; the cognitive faculty (uncountable)

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Intellect is one of man's greatest powers.

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The capacity of that faculty (in a particular person) (uncountable)

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They were chosen because of their outstanding intellect.

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A person who has that faculty to a great degree

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Some of the world's leading intellects were meeting there.

The relation of noiimena to phenomena in the Kantian system is a most difficult one; and, in view of the fact that the acutest intellects of Europe have been engaged vainly for more than a century in reconciling the various passages on the subject, the safest conclusion is that they are irreconcilable.

They would have to prepare a more substantial repast for the hardier and more exercised intellects of those who listened to them.

There is a healthy sprinkling of references to influential intellects of the past, from Rousseau to Adam Smith.

What makes philosophy universal is the fact that we have identical intellects which are the core of our personality.

These three signs are the intellects of the zodiac.

He maintained that the Platonic doctrine was providentially made to harmonize with Christianity, in order that by its means speculative intellects might be led to Christ.

God is not fully comprehensible by us, says Albert, because the finite is not able to grasp the infinite, yet he is not altogether beyond our knowledge; our intellects are touched by a ray of his light, and through this contact we are brought into communion with him.

Political and ecclesiastical dissensions occupied the greatest intellects, and the only progress to be recorded is in the art of computing or arithmetic, and the trans pons asinorum of the earlier mathematicians.

Laennec, it is hardly too much to say that this simple and purely mechanical invention has had more influence on the development of modern medicine than all the "systems" evolved by the most brilliant intellects of the 18th century.

He thereby gave the signal for the age-long conflict between Nominalism and Realism, which exercised the keenest intellects among the Schoolmen, while the crowning work of his life, the Consolatio Philosophiae (524), was repeatedly expounded and imitated, and reproduced in renderings that were among the earliest literary products of the vernacular languages of modern Europe.

Any time you can move data processing from intellects to CPUs, you get vast improvements in efficiency.

We are underbred and low-lived and illiterate; and in this respect I confess I do not make any very broad distinction between the illiterateness of my townsman who cannot read at all and the illiterateness of him who has learned to read only what is for children and feeble intellects.

The success it gained was doubtless due in some degree to the difficulty which most men had in comprehending it, for it was enwrapped in alluring mystery, but more to the confidence with which it was announced as being the long-looked-for key to the wonders of creation, since its promoters did not hesitate to term it the discovery of " the Natural System," though they condescended, by way of explanation to less exalted intellects than their own, to allow it the more moderate appellation of the Circular or, Quinary System.

For the purpose of carrying out his ideas Charlemagne gathered round him the best intellects of Europe.

Besides producing numerous men of genius herself Athens attracted all the great intellects of Greece.