Crossword-Solution: INTELLECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Intellection | n. | A mental act or process; especially: (a) The act of understanding; simple apprehension of ideas; intuition. Bentley. (b) A creation of the mind itself. |
We have 8 clues for the answer “INTELLECTION”
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| process of understanding | 1 answer |
| interiority | 8 answers |
| inner man | 11 answers |
| mentality | 15 answers |
| Conception | 31 answers |
| Intellect | 59 answers |
| inner being | 63 answers |
| Understanding | 89 answers |
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Sentences with INTELLECTION (5)
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
Negative results, as regards specific faculties, were obtained from all localized irritations of the cerebrum, and Flourens was forced to conclude that the cerebral lobe, while being undoubtedly the seat of higher intellection, performs its functions with its entire structure.
Indeed, an ultimate analysis relegates all intellection, in its primordial adumbrations, to every particle of living matter.
But such refinements of analysis, after all, cannot hide the fact that certain forms of higher intellection involve a pretty definite collocation and elaboration of special sensations.
This, of course, is equivalent to postulating the cerebral cortex as the exclusive seat of higher intellection.
Quotes with INTELLECTION (1)
The Islamic intellectual tradition has usually not seen a dichotomy between intellect and intuition but has created a hierarchy of knowledge and methods of attaining knowledge according to which degrees of both intellection and intuition become harmonized in an order encompassing all the means available to man to know, from sensual knowledge an reason to intellection and inner version or the "knowledge of the heart.