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empiricists described above, added some words nihil in intellectu nisi prius fuerit in sensu, nisi intellectus ipsi ("nothing in the intellect without first being

In medieval philosophy, the active intellect (Latin: intellectus agens; also translated as agent intellect, active intelligence, active reason, or productive

philosopher and theologian Thomas Aquinas: "Veritas est adaequatio rei et intellectus" ("Truth is the adequation of things and intellect"), which Aquinas attributed

intelligentia or intellēctus, which in turn stem from the verb intelligere, to comprehend or perceive. In the Middle Ages, the word intellectus became the scholarly

Averroists' "unity of the intellect" doctrine in his book De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas. Based on this, Averroism came to be near-synonymous

variation on the Aristotelian notion of the "active intellect" (Latin: intellectus agens), which he interpreted as the ability to abstract universal meanings

February 2021. maximum est elephans proximumque humanis sensibus, quippe intellectus illis sermonis patrii et imperiorum obedientia, officiorum quae didicere

tuimaq Greek νοῦς (Nous) ἔννοια (Ennoia) φρόνησις (Phronēsis) ἐνθύμησις (Enthymēsis) λογισμός (Logismos) Latin mens sensus prudentia intellectus cogitatio

Greek translation were then translated into Latin as follows: sapientia intellectus consilium fortitudo cognitiō (or scientia as in the above scripture)

Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione (Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect) is an unfinished work of philosophy by the seventeenth-century philosopher