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Roger Bacon called the intellectus agens a distinct substance.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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Veri panem intellectus,/Cenam Christi supra pectus/Sumptam nobis resera,
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Sponsus rubra veste tectus/Visus, sed non intellectus,/Redit ad palatium,
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany 2008
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Something the author called “intellectus,” meaning our ability to understand or use our reasoning power, is the best part of us, and not, by implication, our souls.
Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009
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Spinoza defines the term “attribute” in Definition 4 of Part One of the Ethics thus: “Per attributum intelligo id, quod intellectus de substantia percipit, tanquam ejusdem essentiam constituens.”
Prologue 2009
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In this work Nicholas also introduces an explicit contrast between the human capacities of ratio and intellectus.
Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009
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(Ratio and intellectus recall in some ways dianoia and noesis in Plato's famous image of the divided line.)
Cusanus, Nicolaus [Nicolas of Cusa] Miller, Clyde Lee 2009
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Veritas logica est adaequatio intellectus et rei by Tom Murphy on Tuesday, Mar 4, 2008 at 10: 57: 22 PM
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As was mentioned above, he adopted the concept of an "acquired intellect" (intellectus adeptus) as the highest level of conjunction between possible and active intellect.
Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on the Latin West Hasse, Dag Nikolaus 2008
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The intelligible species are stored in the intellectual memory of the potential intellect [intellectus possibilis], which can then use them to form the corresponding concept in an act of thought, for example, in forming a judgment.
The Medieval Problem of Universals Klima, Gyula 2008
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