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intellection

[ in-tl-ek-shuhn ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.
a particular act of the intellect.
the result of such an act; a notion, thought, or idea.

intellection

/ ˌɪntɪˈlɛkʃən /

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English, from Old French, from Medieval Latin intellēctiōn- (stem of intellēctiō ); intellect, -ion

I came [to personal essays] through the route of, if you want to call it intellection or a kind of interpretive [genre].

In fact the process of intellection has to pass several stages from sense perception through imagination.

Intellect and intellection signify to the common ear consideration of abstract truth.

With the rising level of Faculty engendered by progressive evolution, woman's powers of intellection have developed too.

This, of course, is equivalent to postulating the cerebral cortex as the exclusive seat of higher intellection.

Nevertheless Intelligence possesses fulness and true intellection, because it immediately participates in the Good.

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