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intellection

[in-tl-ek-shuhn]

noun

the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.

a particular act of the intellect.

a conception or idea as the result of such an act; notion; thought.

Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English < Medieval Latin intellēctiōn- (stem of intellēctiō). See intellect, -ion

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intellection (ˌɪntɪˈlɛkʃən)

—n
1.	mental activity; thought
2.	an idea or thought

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"If intellection and knowledge were mere passion from without, or the bare reception of extraneous and adventitious forms, then no reason could be given at all why a mirror or looking-glass should not understand; whereas it cannot so much as sensibly perceive those images which it receives and reflects to us."

-Ralph J. Cudworth

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